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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.
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.
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