AI News Flash for May 19, 2026 at 16:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. Anthropic hires Andrej Karpathy

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-hires-andrej-karpathy-2026-5

2. Amazon Trainium chips winning over AI developers

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4594940-amazon-trainium-chips-starting-to-win-over-some-ai-developers-report

3. China struggles with AI vs employment

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/china-ai-unemployment.html

4. Pope Leo XIV AI encyclical with Anthropic co-founder on May 25

https://baptistnews.com/article/pope-and-co-founder-of-anthropic-to-launch-pontiffs-ai-encyclical-on-may-25/

5. Nobel laureate Tokarczuk used AI for novel

https://lithub.com/nobel-laureate-olga-tokarczuk-apparently-used-ai-to-write-her-latest-novel/