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Episode Monday · May 18, 2026 · 15 min

Ambient Advantage — May 18, 2026

Mon · May 18, 2026 15 min

OpenAI merges ChatGPT, Codex, and its API under Greg Brockman as it races toward an IPO, while Anthropic rents 220,000 GPUs from Musk with a notable kill switch clause. Today's briefing also covers GPT-5.5 pricing shocks, Murati's first model, and why Karpathy says your hiring process is broken.

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