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On 16 May 2026, local stations from Chicago to Kansas all reported fresh SPC outlooks upgrading Sunday–Monday’s threat to “slight”-to-“enhanced,” warning of supercells, tennis-ball hail, 70+ mph winds and possible strong tornadoes across the central U.S.
Closing arguments wrapped on 15 May 2026 in the Oakland federal trial pitting Elon Musk against Sam Altman; a nine-member jury now faces a Monday start to determine whether Musk’s 2024 suit over OpenAI’s nonprofit-to-for-profit pivot was timely and legally breaches a charitable trust.
Northwest A&F University reported that six live, high-yield dairy goat clones were born on 11 May 2026, marking China’s first practical deployment of somatic cell cloning to bulk-replicate elite caprine genetics for its dairy sector.
On 14–15 May 2026, Thai-UK researchers published and publicised the formal description of Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis—a newly named 27-metre, 25-28-tonne sauropod—marking the largest dinosaur ever documented in Southeast Asia.
With closing arguments finished on 15 May 2026, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sent the nine-member jury home to begin deliberations on Monday, 18 May over whether OpenAI’s 2025 $350 billion recapitalisation illegally converted Musk-backed nonprofit assets into a profit-seeking firm.
On 14 May 2026 insiders revealed OpenAI has retained outside counsel to prepare a breach-of-contract notice against Apple after the 2024 ChatGPT-Siri deal failed to generate the promised subscription revenue, just weeks before Apple unveils a Gemini-powered Siri overhaul.
Between 10–13 May 2026 Microsoft pushed and detailed a multi-part Windows 11 update that swaps out 2011 Secure Boot certificates, adds an auto-engaging Low Latency Profile for up to 40 % faster app launches, begins cloud-driven driver rollback tests, and starts a controlled release of the fullscreen Xbox mode.
Starting 11 May 2026, the iOS 26.5 update flips the switch on default end-to-end encryption for RCS texts exchanged between iPhones and Android phones, erasing the last unencrypted gap in native mobile messaging.
On 12 May 2026 Microsoft rolled out its first Project K2 code to the public – KB5089549/48 – activating the new Low Latency Profile CPU-bursting feature, WinUI 3 optimisations, early Xbox Mode, and backend driver-rollback hooks, while simultaneously pushing a one-time Secure Boot certificate refresh before the June deadline.
Wall Street Journal-sourced reports on 13 May 2026 reveal that Google has opened formal negotiations with SpaceX to secure launch services for two prototype “Project Suncatcher” satellites by 2027, moving orbital data centers from concept to concrete deal-making.
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