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On 1-2 May 2026, the DoD formally authorized Google, Microsoft, AWS, Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX and Reflection to run their generative-AI models on secret and top-secret military networks, ending its single-vendor standoff with Anthropic.
University of Hawaiʻi researchers unveiled a data-only ocean model that reliably forecasts El Niño/La Niña up to 15 months earlier and is already projecting a >2 °C Niño 3.4 anomaly—signaling a strong to “super” El Niño—by late 2026.
On 2 May 2026, New Delhi fired a loud, full-screen “extremely severe” test warning to phones across all 36 states/UTs, debuting its indigenously-built cell-broadcast platform for real-time disaster alerts.
On 1 May 2026 the U.S. Defense Department finalized contracts with AWS, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX and newcomer Reflection AI to deploy their generative-AI tools on Impact-Level 6/7 classified systems, while keeping Anthropic barred after its March supply-chain-risk designation.
Beginning 2 March 2026, Hezbollah introduced first-person-view drones guided by up to 50 km of fibre-optic tether, conducting lethal strikes that bypass Israel’s multi-billion-dollar electronic-warfare dome.
At 21:00 Moscow time on 30 Apr 2026, Russia and Kazakhstan’s Baiterek launch pad sent the new two-stage Soyuz-5/Sunkar rocket on its maiden flight, which completed 9.5 minutes of powered ascent and delivered a dummy payload to the planned sub-orbital path without anomalies.
J. Craig Venter, the scientist–entrepreneur who jump-started the private race to decode the human genome, died in San Diego on 29 April 2026 from complications of cancer therapy at age 79.
On 30 April 2026, Elon Musk told a California federal court that xAI used model distillation of OpenAI systems to help build its Grok chatbot— the first on-record admission by a major U.S. competitor of tapping a rival’s proprietary AI outputs.
From April 1-11 2026, four astronauts flew 690,000 mi around the Moon—farther than any humans ever—then, on April 29, parlayed the feat into a headline-grabbing Oval Office visit where President Trump quipped he could make the cut as an astronaut.
On 28–29 Apr 2026, 57 countries met in Santa Marta, Colombia for the first ever Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels—excluding the U.S., China and India—where France unveiled a detailed timetable to eliminate coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050.
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