Google shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash, Antigravity 2.0, and Gemini Spark at I/O. Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic. KPMG put Claude in front of 276,000 auditors. Meta, Intuit, Standard Chartered, and ClickUp cut close to 19,500 jobs to make room.
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Karpathy joined Anthropic to compress Claude’s training cycle. Meta cut 8,000 to keep up.
or eighteen months the question on every enterprise call was the same: who ships an agent that actually works inside a Fortune 500. This week, three different parts of the industry tried to answer it at once.
Google made Gemini 3.5 Flash generally available
at I/O on May 19, paired with Antigravity 2.0 and Managed Agents in the Gemini API.
KPMG put Claude in front of 276,000 employees
across 138 countries the same day. On May 18,
Dell and OpenAI extended Codex to on-premises infrastructure
, and Dell launched Deskside Agentic AI as an alternative to cloud-only deployment.
The talent side moved with it. OpenAI co-founder
Andrej Karpathy announced on Tuesday he had joined Anthropic
, leading a team that uses Claude to accelerate pre-training research. Anthropic also told investors it expects to
more than double Q2 revenue to roughly $10.9 billion
and post a first operating profit of $559 million, on a basis that excludes stock-based compensation.
, ten percent of staff, as Mark Zuckerberg told employees "success isn't a given" in the AI era. Intuit cut
while signing multi-year deals with Anthropic and OpenAI. Standard Chartered told investors in Hong Kong it would
by 2030. ClickUp added another 22% workforce cut the morning of May 22 and called the new structure a “100x org.” The headline is roughly 19,150 announced cuts across four firms inside a week. The structural number is the second one: every cut is being explicitly priced against a Claude, Gemini, or Codex seat that did not exist twelve months ago.
Andrej Karpathy left education to rebuild Claude’s pre-training stack.
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