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On May 19th, Andrej Karpathy—OpenAI co-founder and former Director of AI at Tesla—announced he’s joining Anthropic. In a statement, he noted, “I believe the next few years will be a particularly critical stretch for advancing Large Language Models (LLMs). I’m really excited to join this team and get back to R&D work. I still hold a deep passion for education and plan to keep pushing related work forward at the right time down the line.”

On May 19, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a proposal to expand disclosure rules for public companies and broaden the scope of "shelf offerings" — moves aimed at encouraging more firms to go public via initial public offerings (IPOs). Note: A shelf offering lets a company register a large batch of planned securities (such as stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments) with the SEC upfront, without needing to sell all of them right away. Instead, the securities can be “put on the shelf” for a period of time and issued in batches whenever market conditions are favorable.

Per monitoring from Dynamic Beating, Reuters reported that Europe’s leading AI firm Mistral AI announced Tuesday it has acquired Emmi AI—an Austria-based company located in Linz—with the transaction’s value undisclosed. The acquisition aims to enhance the company’s AI solution capabilities for European industrial clients. In 2025, Emmi AI closed Austria’s largest funding round on record, raising €15 million. The company focuses on developing AI models that address complex physical challenges in industrial scenarios, including issues like airflow, heat conduction, and material stress. Mistral AI stated that this acquisition will strengthen its core strategy around serving European clients, with a particular focus on engineering design and manufacturing tasks that have so far been relatively overlooked by the broader AI industry. The firm noted its solutions will be customized to customer needs, integrating multiple AI tools to operate in harmony. For example, one AI model handles prod

On May 19, Bitget market data indicates that the U.S. stock storage sector extended its recent downward trend. Micron Technology (MU) edged down 0.33%, SanDisk (SNDK) fell 1.26%, Western Digital (WDC) dropped 3.75%, and Seagate Technology (STX) posted the sharpest decline in the group, falling 4.32%.

On May 19th, U.S. President Trump stated that Washington can do whatever it wants. (FX168)

On May 19th, Singapore-based Bitcoin mining hardware maker and mining firm Canaan announced a net loss of $88.7 million for the first quarter of 2026, alongside total revenue of $62.7 million—figures that align with the company’s earlier performance guidance. The net loss broke down into multiple components: $54.3 million in operating losses, $24.9 million in fair-value losses on its cryptocurrency holdings, $16 million in financial derivatives losses, and $4 million in exchange-related losses. For revenue, $42.9 million came from product sales, while $19.1 million was generated by Canaan’s mining business. The company attributed the revenue decline to two key factors: a drop in sold computing power, and a weakening of Bitcoin’s average price.