OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team

May 19, 2026 Rebecca Bellan, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company. It's also one of the most expensive, compute-intensive phases of building a frontier model.

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Google’s new Universal Cart wants to follow your entire shopping journey across the internet
Google’s new Universal Cart wants to follow your entire shopping journey across the internet

Most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why Go...

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The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling
The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling

"The Light Phone is designed to be used as little as possible," founder Joe Hollier told TechCrunch.