Musk Loses His OpenAI Lawsuit, Cursor Hits Frontier Coding for Under $1, Meta Lays Off 8,000
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 19th, 2026. After three weeks of private texts, billionaire testimony, and $100 billion in claims, Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft was unanimously dismissed — not on the merits, but because the jury found Musk waited too long to sue, with Musk already vowing to appeal and calling the outcome a calendar technicality rather than a verdict on whether Sam Altman stole a charity. Cursor released Composer 2.5, a near-frontier coding model built on Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 that matches Opus 4.7 performance at under a dollar per task —…
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