AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-05-19 : anthropic buys the competition's toolbox

Big moves in AI infrastructure today. Anthropic acquires Stainless for over $300M and kills the SDK tools that OpenAI, Google, and others relied on—pure vertical integration play. Meanwhile, a jury unanimously rejected Elon Musk's $150B lawsuit against OpenAI in just two hours, clearing the path for their rumored trillion-dollar IPO. Plus, IBM Research and Hugging Face drop the Open Agent Leaderboard, the first benchmark that judges complete AI agent systems on both quality and cost.