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On 5 May 2026, five major publishers and novelist-lawyer Scott Turow filed a Manhattan class-action claiming Mark Zuckerberg killed licensing talks in April 2023 and instead authorized mass ingestion of pirated texts to build Meta’s Llama AI.
On 5–6 May 2026 Meta began activating an AI system that scans users’ photos and text for height, bone structure, birthdays and school clues, auto-deactivating suspected under-13 profiles and expanding Teen Account safeguards to 27 EU nations, Brazil and, for the first time, Facebook in the U.S.
A 4 May 2026 Nature Astronomy paper reports that occultation data from 10 Jan 2024 show the 500 km-wide plutino (612533) 2002 XV93 possesses a global, ultra-thin atmosphere—the smallest solar-system body ever shown to retain one.
On 5 May 2026, OpenAI president Greg Brockman told a federal jury that Elon Musk had demanded majority control of OpenAI in 2017 to raise $80 billion for Mars, while also disclosing the company will spend $50 billion on computing power this year.
On 4 May 2026, GameStop revealed it already owns 5% of eBay and is dangling a $125-per-share half-cash, half-stock offer—worth about $55.5 billion—to seize control and install CEO Ryan Cohen, signaling willingness to bypass the board and go hostile.
On 5 May 2026, Mayon’s lava-collapse sent a pyroclastic current while Kanlaon lofted twin 800 m ash plumes, forcing police to seal a 6-km (possibly 7-km) cordon at Mayon and keeping Kanlaon at Alert Level 2.
On 5 May 2026 researchers announced that stellar-occultation data from 10 Jan 2024 reveal a previously unknown, ultra-thin atmosphere around 500-km-wide trans-Neptunian object 2002 XV93—the first such detection on any body beyond Pluto.
After a 3 May 2026 strike in southern Lebanon that killed an Israeli sergeant and wounded several others, Israel admitted its radio-jamming defenses cannot stop Hezbollah’s tether-controlled FPV drones and hastily launched a new counter-drone program.
After a 2 May 2026 collapse of Mayon’s active lava front triggered pyroclastic density currents and blanket ashfall, PHIVOLCS kept Alert Level 3, the aviation regulator closed the 6-km airspace, 4–5 thousand residents were moved to shelters, and officials are weighing an expansion of the ground danger zone from 6 km to 7 km.
On 2–3 May 2026 a reusable Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg at 23:59 PDT, deploying South Korea’s long-delayed CAS500-2 and 44 secondary payloads—most notably GalaxEye’s 190 kg Drishti, the world’s first OptoSAR satellite—while its first stage notched a record-tying 33rd flight and landing.
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