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# Evening Scan
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-05-19-pm/
- Published: 2026-05-19T23:06:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-19T23:06:49.000Z
- Description: Elon Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI ended with a unanimous jury verdict and a judge’s dismissal of remaining claims. Meta’s layoff cuts take effect tomorrow. Blackstone and Google closed a TPU joint venture aimed at chipping away at NVIDIA’s enterprise dominance.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-pm, #scan

Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI ended with a unanimous jury verdict and a judge's dismissal of remaining claims. Meta's layoff cuts take effect tomorrow. Blackstone and Google closed a TPU joint venture aimed at chipping away at NVIDIA's enterprise dominance.

> **$200B+** — Meta's projected spend on its Hyperion data center campus in Louisiana, targeting 5 GW of compute capacity. *(Bloomberg)*

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#### [Elon Musk Loses OpenAI Trial — Jury and Judge Both Side With Altman](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/elon-musk-loses-trial-accusing-sam-altman-openai-of-stealing-a-charity/?ref=adjacent.media)

Nine jurors unanimously found Musk waited too long to sue. The judge dismissed the remaining claims on the merits — a clean sweep for OpenAI with more legal fights still queued up. *(Ars Technica)*

#### [Standard Chartered Plans to Cut 7,800 Back-Office Jobs to AI by 2030](https://thenextweb.com/news/standard-chartered-ai-7800-back-office-jobs-2030?ref=adjacent.media)

HR, risk, and compliance functions shrink by more than 15% over five years. The CEO called it efficiency—the word banks use when they mean replacement. *(The Next Web)*

#### [Meta Reassigns 7,000 Workers to AI Units Ahead of Tomorrow's 10% Layoffs](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/technology/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-ai.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.jVA.w1Cp.q%5FTt-P929doT&smid=url-share&ref=adjacent.media)

The internal memo landed before the pink slips: 7,000 people moving into four new AI-focused units while 10% of the workforce gets cut on May 20\. *(New York Times)*