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Digg - AI news, before it trends

Highlights

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to conduct research and development on frontier large language models after prior roles at OpenAI and Tesla

Top Stories.

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Recent GitHub Stars

Digg - AI news, before it trends

Highlights

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to conduct research and development on frontier large language models after prior roles at OpenAI and Tesla

Top Stories.

GitHub Stars (7-days)

Recent GitHub Stars

Yesterday's Top Stories, May 19, 2026.

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to conduct research and development on frontier large language models after prior roles at OpenAI and Tesla — He remains committed to education and will resume projects later.

Google announces Gemini 3.5 model series and Gemini Omni through DeepMind at I/O conference, adding video generation and editing from image and audio references. — Sundar Pichai also updated SynthID with new partners including NVIDIA and OpenAI.

Google releases Gemini 3.5 Flash for complex agentic workflows, coding, and reasoning at 289 tokens per second and higher scores than Gemini 3.1 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.1, GDPval-AA, and MCP Atlas — Large token quotas appeared in Google Cloud Console before wider rollout.

Analysis projects equity stakes and founder pledges at OpenAI and Anthropic will yield $370 billion in philanthropic assets supporting up to $100 billion in annual grants — OpenAI Foundation's stake already surpasses the Gates Foundation by assets.

Google DeepMind expands Project Genie with Street View integration to generate interactive 3D environments anchored to real-world Google Maps locations — Tool is available for testing by Gemini Ultra users.

METR publishes its first Frontier Risk Report assessing whether AI labs could lose control of advanced autonomous agents after testing internal models from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI — Ajeya Cotra led the project after joining METR on January 12.

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash scores 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a nine-point gain over Gemini 3 Flash, while leading the intelligence-speed frontier and exceeding 280 output tokens per second — It posts 76.2 percent on Terminal-bench 2.1.

Google DeepMind releases Omni, a video generation model that advances character consistency and editing by turning short clips into reusable face-and-voice avatars — Demonstrations show consistent characters at multiple Disneyland locations with branded items.

Claude announces the public beta of self-hosted sandboxes and research preview of MCP tunnels within Claude Managed Agents, enabling runs inside user infrastructure under existing security controls — Features were presented at Code with Claude London with Cloudflare and Modal support.

Cursor AI releases Composer 2.5, its most powerful model to date, with gains in intelligence, long-task performance, and complex instruction adherence while doubling usage for all users — Cursor plans a larger model trained from scratch with SpaceXAI on 10x compute.

Edison Scientific announces partnership with Incyte to deploy Kosmos AI agent across full drug development pipeline from molecular design through FDA approval — Incyte becomes first company to integrate the system end-to-end.

OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity to let eligible customers secure long-term compute access across supported cloud providers via 1-3 year commitments and spend-linked discounts — Targets organizations running critical AI workloads and production infrastructure.

Sam Altman offers $2 million in OpenAI tokens to every startup in the current Y Combinator batch in exchange for equity — Announcement made at live Y Combinator event using retail token values

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic pretraining team and will lead a new group that uses Claude to conduct research, according to journalist Alex Heath — One post featured a satirical portrait of him as Pope Dario I.

xAI enables Grok and X Premium subscribers to connect models to OpenClaw starting today for agent chat, image and video generation, and X post search — OpenClaw is an open-source local-first agent with persistent memory.

Antigravity unifies its agentic surfaces under a single platform incorporating Antigravity 2.0 desktop app, CLI, SDK, and IDE for consistent access across environments — Demo builds Street Guesser game using multi-agent Gemini interfaces.

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic as platform posts respond with surprised Pikachu and awakening gorilla memes — Reactions include a shocked Pikachu close-up and jungle gorilla meme.

Thinking Machines Lab announces grant program awarding multiple $100,000 awards plus $25,000 in Tinker credits to researchers advancing human-AI interactivity with proposals due June 19 2026 — Grants support real-time multimodal proactive and safe human-AI collaboration research.

Google showcases SynthID watermarking system at I/O with logos of OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao and ElevenLabs signaling partner adoption — Sundar Pichai also presented Gemini 3.5 Flash benchmarks at the session.

Gemini Omni Flash generates a 10-second video from a London Eye prompt that accurately depicts the capsule interior, River Thames, Big Ben, and gentle wheel sway — Output closely matches actual footage from the same location.

Google launches its biggest Search redesign in 25 years featuring an AI-powered box with Gemini 3.5 Flash for multimodal queries and agentic capabilities — Announced May 19, the update demos micro apps like weekend planners.

Viktor raises $75 million Series A led by Accel, the largest ever for a Polish-founded company, as its AI coworker operates inside Slack and connects to over 3,000 tools — It reached $15 million annualized recurring revenue in ten weeks.

Granta magazine asked Claude AI whether passages in a Commonwealth Short Story Prize entry were AI-generated and received opposite conclusions on rephrased prompts — Claude said it is not a detector and such checks are weak.

Cerebras places Kimi K2.6, a trillion-parameter model, into enterprise trials running at roughly 1,000 output tokens per second, the highest speed Artificial Analysis has recorded for any frontier model — Benchmarks show 981 tokens per second on 10,000 input tokens.

Google announces at its I/O conference that monthly tokens processed across its AI surfaces have reached 3.2 quadrillion — Gemini reached over 900 million monthly active users by April 2026.

Gemini-3.5-Flash regains the top spot on the Toolathlon leaderboard after five months with a 56.5 percent Pass@1 score on 108 agent tasks — Gemini variants also hit 67.42 percent on Terminal-Bench 2.0 physics tasks.

Parallel launches Index, a platform that lets content owners monitor AI agents' use of their material and receive compensation based on impressions, citations, uniqueness, and task value — Initial partners include The Atlantic and Fortune with over 100,000 daily users.

Steven Adler and Page Hedley launch Guidelight AI Standards to promote safe frontier AI development practices with first standards on control and transparency requirements — Adler and Hedley also co-authored a report on xAI safety for SpaceX investors.

xAI publishes setup guide for xurl skill connecting Hermes Agents to the X platform for natural language commands — Nous Research, maker of Hermes models, shared the guide.

Yesterday's Top Stories, May 19, 2026.

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to conduct research and development on frontier large language models after prior roles at OpenAI and Tesla — He remains committed to education and will resume projects later.

Google announces Gemini 3.5 model series and Gemini Omni through DeepMind at I/O conference, adding video generation and editing from image and audio references. — Sundar Pichai also updated SynthID with new partners including NVIDIA and OpenAI.

Google releases Gemini 3.5 Flash for complex agentic workflows, coding, and reasoning at 289 tokens per second and higher scores than Gemini 3.1 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.1, GDPval-AA, and MCP Atlas — Large token quotas appeared in Google Cloud Console before wider rollout.

Analysis projects equity stakes and founder pledges at OpenAI and Anthropic will yield $370 billion in philanthropic assets supporting up to $100 billion in annual grants — OpenAI Foundation's stake already surpasses the Gates Foundation by assets.

Google DeepMind expands Project Genie with Street View integration to generate interactive 3D environments anchored to real-world Google Maps locations — Tool is available for testing by Gemini Ultra users.

METR publishes its first Frontier Risk Report assessing whether AI labs could lose control of advanced autonomous agents after testing internal models from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI — Ajeya Cotra led the project after joining METR on January 12.

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash scores 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a nine-point gain over Gemini 3 Flash, while leading the intelligence-speed frontier and exceeding 280 output tokens per second — It posts 76.2 percent on Terminal-bench 2.1.

Google DeepMind releases Omni, a video generation model that advances character consistency and editing by turning short clips into reusable face-and-voice avatars — Demonstrations show consistent characters at multiple Disneyland locations with branded items.

Claude announces the public beta of self-hosted sandboxes and research preview of MCP tunnels within Claude Managed Agents, enabling runs inside user infrastructure under existing security controls — Features were presented at Code with Claude London with Cloudflare and Modal support.

Cursor AI releases Composer 2.5, its most powerful model to date, with gains in intelligence, long-task performance, and complex instruction adherence while doubling usage for all users — Cursor plans a larger model trained from scratch with SpaceXAI on 10x compute.

Edison Scientific announces partnership with Incyte to deploy Kosmos AI agent across full drug development pipeline from molecular design through FDA approval — Incyte becomes first company to integrate the system end-to-end.

OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity to let eligible customers secure long-term compute access across supported cloud providers via 1-3 year commitments and spend-linked discounts — Targets organizations running critical AI workloads and production infrastructure.

Sam Altman offers $2 million in OpenAI tokens to every startup in the current Y Combinator batch in exchange for equity — Announcement made at live Y Combinator event using retail token values

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic pretraining team and will lead a new group that uses Claude to conduct research, according to journalist Alex Heath — One post featured a satirical portrait of him as Pope Dario I.

xAI enables Grok and X Premium subscribers to connect models to OpenClaw starting today for agent chat, image and video generation, and X post search — OpenClaw is an open-source local-first agent with persistent memory.

Antigravity unifies its agentic surfaces under a single platform incorporating Antigravity 2.0 desktop app, CLI, SDK, and IDE for consistent access across environments — Demo builds Street Guesser game using multi-agent Gemini interfaces.

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic as platform posts respond with surprised Pikachu and awakening gorilla memes — Reactions include a shocked Pikachu close-up and jungle gorilla meme.

Thinking Machines Lab announces grant program awarding multiple $100,000 awards plus $25,000 in Tinker credits to researchers advancing human-AI interactivity with proposals due June 19 2026 — Grants support real-time multimodal proactive and safe human-AI collaboration research.

Google showcases SynthID watermarking system at I/O with logos of OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao and ElevenLabs signaling partner adoption — Sundar Pichai also presented Gemini 3.5 Flash benchmarks at the session.

Gemini Omni Flash generates a 10-second video from a London Eye prompt that accurately depicts the capsule interior, River Thames, Big Ben, and gentle wheel sway — Output closely matches actual footage from the same location.

Google launches its biggest Search redesign in 25 years featuring an AI-powered box with Gemini 3.5 Flash for multimodal queries and agentic capabilities — Announced May 19, the update demos micro apps like weekend planners.

Viktor raises $75 million Series A led by Accel, the largest ever for a Polish-founded company, as its AI coworker operates inside Slack and connects to over 3,000 tools — It reached $15 million annualized recurring revenue in ten weeks.

Granta magazine asked Claude AI whether passages in a Commonwealth Short Story Prize entry were AI-generated and received opposite conclusions on rephrased prompts — Claude said it is not a detector and such checks are weak.

Cerebras places Kimi K2.6, a trillion-parameter model, into enterprise trials running at roughly 1,000 output tokens per second, the highest speed Artificial Analysis has recorded for any frontier model — Benchmarks show 981 tokens per second on 10,000 input tokens.

Google announces at its I/O conference that monthly tokens processed across its AI surfaces have reached 3.2 quadrillion — Gemini reached over 900 million monthly active users by April 2026.

Gemini-3.5-Flash regains the top spot on the Toolathlon leaderboard after five months with a 56.5 percent Pass@1 score on 108 agent tasks — Gemini variants also hit 67.42 percent on Terminal-Bench 2.0 physics tasks.

Parallel launches Index, a platform that lets content owners monitor AI agents' use of their material and receive compensation based on impressions, citations, uniqueness, and task value — Initial partners include The Atlantic and Fortune with over 100,000 daily users.

Steven Adler and Page Hedley launch Guidelight AI Standards to promote safe frontier AI development practices with first standards on control and transparency requirements — Adler and Hedley also co-authored a report on xAI safety for SpaceX investors.

xAI publishes setup guide for xurl skill connecting Hermes Agents to the X platform for natural language commands — Nous Research, maker of Hermes models, shared the guide.