AI in 15

AI in 15 — May 22, 2026

Anthropic is about to post its first profitable quarter. Five hundred fifty-nine million dollars in operating profit on ten-point-nine billion in revenue. Two years ahead of internal projections. The narrative that AI companies are bottomless money pits just took a serious hit.

AI in 15 — May 21, 2026

An AI just disproved a math conjecture that Paul Erdős posed eighty years ago and that no human ever cracked. It wasn't a math-specialized system. It wasn't being supervised. And the panel of mathematicians who checked the proof includes the same guy who publicly tore OpenAI's last math claim to shreds seven months ago.

AI in 15 — May 20, 2026

Andrej Karpathy just joined Anthropic. OpenAI co-founder, Tesla Autopilot lead, the closest thing AI has to a public teacher. He's not building his own lab anymore. He's reporting to a team lead at the company that started as the safety spinoff. And he says he picked them because the next few years at the frontier will be, quote, especially formative.

AI in 15 — May 19, 2026

Elon Musk wanted somewhere between seventy-eight billion and one hundred thirty-five billion dollars from Sam Altman. He got a unanimous jury verdict against him and a one-word statement from his own legal team. The word was, appeal.

AI in 15 — May 18, 2026

Eight thousand college graduates booed a billionaire who told them they will work for AI. Eric Schmidt thought he was giving a commencement pep talk. The University of Arizona class of 2026 thought otherwise. And the video has not stopped going viral all weekend.