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Google unveils AI model Gemini 3.5 and AI agent Gemini Spark

TazaPulseMay 19, 2026

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is rolling out its latest version of Gemini and a new artificial intelligence model designed to simulate the physical world, as the...

Anthropic hires OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI lead

TazaPulseMay 19, 2026

Andrej Karpathy Director of AI Tesla a keynote speaker at the Train AI conference at Pier 27 in San Francisco, Ca. on Thurs. May 10, 2018. Michael Macor | San Francisco Chronicle | Getty Images Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI before getting poached by Tesla, announced on Tuesday that he’s joining...

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See the full list of companies and rankings

TazaPulseMay 19, 2026

CNBC | Igor Gnedo, Antonina Lepore & Adrianne Paerels There’s a big change at the top of the CNBC Disruptor 50 with Anthropic rising to No. 1 in 2026. Companies across the economy raced to embrace AI over the past year rather than risk being left behind by it, and that’s put the generative AI...

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Modular data center builder Armada raises $230 million

TazaPulseMay 19, 2026

Armada co-founders Dan Wright (L) and John Runyan (R) Armada Armada, which builds modular data centers that are becoming increasingly popular with customers in defense, energy and the military sector, raised $230 million from investors in a Series B fundraising round announced on Tuesday. San Francisco-based Armada, which was named to the 2026 CNBC Disruptor...

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Anthropic, Defense Department face off in DC court over blacklisting

TazaPulseMay 19, 2026

Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., is set to hear arguments on Tuesday in Anthropic’s lawsuit over its blacklisting by the Department of Defense, the latest...

5 things to know before the market opens Tuesday

TazaPulseMay 19, 2026

1. The verdict is in A combination photo shows CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman (L) on April 28, 2026 and Elon Musk on April 29, 2026 during the trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, U.S. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters After less than two hours of...

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Why Anthropic was No. 1 on this year’s list

TazaPulseMay 19, 2026

This year’s Disruptor 50 list, with Anthropic at No. 1, followed by OpenAI, features companies that are using technology — primarily AI — to challenge existing industries and build new ones. With explosive growth — CEO Dario Amodei says revenue grew 80 times in the first quarter — Anthropic has had one of the fastest...

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How we chose this year’s companies

TazaPulseMay 19, 2026

The CNBC Disruptor 50 was not created to be an AI list, but it most certainly is one now. Forty-three of the 50 companies in the 2026 list class say AI is essential to their disruptive business models. That’s the key — AI is at the center of the business model, driving user adoption and...

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Blackstone to invest $5 billion in AI infrastructure venture with Google

TazaPulseMay 19, 2026

The Google Cloud logo is displayed on a high-definition digital monolith at the entrance of the Google pavilion during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on March 5, 2026. For the 2026 edition, Google Cloud showcases its developments in the ”IQ Era” by unveiling new Agentic AI solutions for telecommunications, powered by the Gemini...

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How the Iran war is raising costs for AI chip companies

TazaPulseMay 19, 2026

The AI rally continued this earnings season. But companies building the underlying hardware powering the boom warned that the Iran war is putting pressure on their supply chains and profitability. A spiraling conflict in the Middle East has seen oil prices skyrocket and supply chains crucial to the tech sector hamstrung. Shortages of key chipmaking...