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This episode is brought to you by Capital One. Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi agentic AI. They already deployed one. It's called Chat Concierge and it's simplifying car shopping using self reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks. It doesn't just help buyers find a car they love, it helps schedule a test drive, get pre approved for financing and estimate trade in value. Advanced, intuitive and deployed. That's how they stack. That's technology. At Capital One, the to do list
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These are the daily tick Headlines for Tuesday, May 19, 2026 Rob I'm Rob Dunwood. California jury ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI co founders Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Microsoft. Musk alleged that they were stealing a charity via a for profit affiliate, but the case was dismissed because the jury found that the claims were filed after the statute of limitations. Judge Javon Gonzalez Rogers noted substantial evidence supporting this finding. The verdict secures OpenAI against restructuring risk before its reported IPO. While OpenAI's attorney Bill Savitt dismissed the suit as an attempt to sabotage a competitor, Musk maintained his accusations on social media and plans to appeal. The 9th Circuit Meta announced a major restructuring and layoff plan cutting 10% of staff this week with an eventual 20% total reduction via job cuts and transfers driven by aggressive AI investment. The overhaul eliminates managerial roles to create a flatter structure and move 7,000 employees into AI initiatives like Applied AI Engineering and Agent Transformation Accelerator to build autonomous AI agents. These AI linked cuts have sparked employee protests over executive silence and the use of mouse tracking software for AI training. Apple has unveiled a new accessibility feature set powered by Apple Intelligence, timed before Google's developer conference, expected to launch later this year with iOS27. Key updates include enhanced voice over image recognition for documents, natural language voice control for apps, and AI powered summaries for complex papers in the reader feature. Additionally, the update introduces AI generated subtitles across platforms, eye tracking, wheelchair control for Vision Pro, and expanded language support for hearing accessibility features. X has implemented a new restriction on unverified accounts, drastically reducing their daily posting capacity from 2,400 updates to just 50 original posts and 200 replies. While the platform likely intended this change to mitigate spam and bot activity, it has faced backlash from long term users who argue that the limits are too restrictive. Consequently, the policy may drive more users toward the X premium subscription tiers or lead them to leave the platform platform entirely in favor of competitors. Blackstone, the world's top private data center owner, is partnering with Google on a new USAI infrastructure firm with a $5 billion equity investment. LED by Benjamin Taylor Sloss, the venture aims to provide 500 megawatts of capacity by 2027 using Google's tensor Processing unit. This major Blackstone deal highlights the competition between Google's custom GPUs and Nvidia's GPUs. Google and other tech leaders are leveraging such partnerships to promote specialized hardware and decreased dependence on Nvidia Fortnite has returned to the iOS app store after a five year legal battle, though Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney continues to challenge Apple's Apple tax and regulatory tactics worldwide. While the game is back on the Google Play Store globally following a settlement, it remains absent from the Australian App Store as Epic awaits further court decisions regarding unlawful payment terms. Sweeney maintains that this is just the beginning of a global effort to restore competition and transparency to digital marketplaces. Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a New York based startup specializing in automated SDK maintenance, for an estimated price exceeding $300 million. This strategic move effectively removes a critical infrastructure supplier from competitors like OpenAI and Google, as Anthropic plans to wind down all hosted Stainless products to make the technology exclusive for its own API and agent development. While the acquisition consolidates these tools for Anthropic internal use, existing Stainless customers will retain ownership and modification rights for SDKs they have generated. LinkedIn has launched a new initiative to curb the prevalence of AI slop by reducing the reach of generic recycled or engagement baiting content that lacks original expertise. By collaborating with its editorial team, the platform's engineers have developed patterns to identify AI generated drivel such as repetitive phrasing and recycled thought leadership, and will demote such posts as its recommendation algorithms suggest. Despite this crackdown, LinkedIn maintains a distinction for AI assisted content, continuing to welcome that use generative tools as long as they contribute original ideas or foster meaningful conversation among members. And finally, Microsoft has confirmed its two stage launch for the next generation Surface PCs, including the Surface Pro 12, Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Laptop 13 inch. The first models featuring Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips, upgraded displays and haptics are currently available for business customers. Consumer models featuring Snapdragon X2 processors marketed as AI PCs are expected to arrive later this year, likely over the summer, with sources citing high demand for component availability as reasons for the delay. These consumer models are anticipated to include OLED displays on the laptop 8. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to dailytechnewsshow.com and if you enjoy the show, remember to tell a friend to check us out. 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This episode is brought to you by Capital One. Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi agentic AI. They already deployed one. It's called Chat Concierge and it's simplifying car shopping using self reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks. It doesn't just help buyers find a car they love, it helps schedule a test drive, get pre approved for financing and estimate trade in value. Advanced, intuitive and deployed. That's how they stack. That's technology at Capital One, not every
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sale happens at the register. Before AT&T business Wireless checking out customers on our mobile POS systems took too long. Basically a staring contest where everyone loses. It's crazy what people will say during an awkward silence. Now transactions are done before the silence takes hold. That means I can focus on the task at hand and make an extra sail or two. Sometimes I do miss the bonding time. Sometimes.
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AT&T business Wireless Connecting changes everything.