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On 19 May 2026, Google replaced all prior models with Gemini 3.5 Flash and unveiled always-on agents like Gemini Spark and AI Search Agents, marking its formal pivot from chat-responses to autonomous task execution across its products.
On 19 May 2026 at 05:52 CEST a Vega-C rocket lofted the joint ESA-CAS SMILE spacecraft, the first observatory able to photograph Earth’s magnetic boundary in soft X-rays, filling a 70-year observational gap in space-weather monitoring.
SpaceX postponed its first launch of the overhauled Starship V3 by one day and now plans to fly the record-setting vehicle at 6:30 p.m. ET on 20 May from a new pad at Starbase, Texas.
On 18 May 2026 an Oakland federal jury unanimously found Elon Musk’s 2024 breach-of-charitable-trust suit against OpenAI untimely, ending the three-week trial without addressing the underlying claims.
On 25 May 2026 Pope Leo XIV will personally unveil his first encyclical on artificial intelligence, sharing the stage with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah—an unprecedented Vatican–tech partnership that openly challenges U.S. government pressure to militarize AI.
Starting 16 May 2026, U.S. ChatGPT Pro users can directly connect bank and investment accounts through Plaid so the bot can read balances and transactions and deliver individualized budgeting and saving advice.
Leaked WWDC briefs show iOS 27 will introduce a Siri app that defaults to wiping chat logs, giving users 30-day, 1-year, or indefinite retention options—an industry-first for a major AI assistant.
On 15 May 2026 at WinHEC Taipei, Microsoft unveiled a four-pillar Driver Quality Initiative and began testing Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery that can remotely undo faulty Windows drivers, marking the first time the company will automatically revert bad drivers via Windows Update.
On 16–17 May 2026, OpenAI began a U.S.–only preview that lets ChatGPT Pro users link live bank and investment accounts—via Plaid—to receive GPT-5.5-generated, data-specific budgeting and spending advice.
On 14–15 May 2026 researchers formally published and unveiled a new 27-metre, 27-tonne sauropod, Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, making it the biggest dinosaur yet recorded in Southeast Asia.
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