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On 19 May 2026, Colossal Biosciences revealed it had reared 26 healthy chickens entirely inside a silicone-membrane, 3D-printed “egg,” claiming the scalable system clears the surrogate barrier to reviving New Zealand’s extinct giant moa.
On 20 May 2026, Google replaced its classic keyword-based Search experience with a Gemini 3.5 Flash–powered ‘Intelligent Search Box’ and background information agents, marking the product’s largest redesign since 1998.
On 19 May 2026, Colossal Biosciences announced it successfully raised 26 healthy chickens inside open-top, silicone-membrane eggs—its first proof that a fully synthetic, size-scalable incubation vessel can replace a natural shell.
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.
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