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Startup news Jury unanimously dismisses Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI May 19, 2026
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Startup news Elon Musk loses his case against OpenAI and Sam Altman after just two hours of jury deliberation May 19, 2026
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Startup news Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here’s what he found. May 19, 2026
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Startup news HistoSonics gets Taiwan approval for its tumour-destroying ultrasound system as it pushes into Asia May 18, 2026
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Startup news SpaceX raises Starlink prices across every consumer plan and doubles the cost of Standby Mode May 18, 2026
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Startup news Meta begins cutting 8,000 jobs this week as record profits fund a $145 billion AI infrastructure bet May 18, 2026
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Startup news Coursera announces $500 million buyback one week after closing its $2.5 billion Udemy merger May 18, 2026
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Startup news Grafana Labs refuses ransom after hackers steal already-open-source code May 18, 2026
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Startup news Sigma Computing doubles valuation to $3 billion in Series E as agentic analytics race heats up May 18, 2026
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Startup news Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms May 18, 2026
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Startup news OpenClaw creator’s $1.3 million monthly OpenAI bill reveals the real cost of autonomous AI coding at scale May 18, 2026
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Startup news Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit as jury unanimously rules his claims were filed too late May 18, 2026
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Startup news Hackers stole fingerprints and medical data from 1.8 million people in NYC’s largest public hospital breach May 18, 2026
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Startup news Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes May 18, 2026
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Startup news NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people May 18, 2026
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Startup news Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients May 18, 2026
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Startup news Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI May 18, 2026
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Startup news OSHA probing worker death at SpaceX’s Starbase site May 18, 2026
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Startup news SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required May 18, 2026
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Startup news Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare May 18, 2026