Meta is cutting about 8,000 jobs (roughly 10% of its workforce) while shifting 7,000 employees into AI teams and boosting AI spending to as much as $125–$145 billion—moves that have sparked employee backlash...
In May 2026, Google replaced Gemini’s simple daily prompt limits with compute‑based quotas that refresh every five hours and count factors like prompt complexity, features used, and chat length—leading many...
At the May 22–23, 2026 APEC trade ministers meeting in Suzhou, China urged the 21 Asia‑Pacific economies to reject “zero‑sum thinking” and defend open, rules‑based trade as protectionism, supply‑chain risks,...
Europe’s digital euro aims to reduce reliance on foreign payment networks like Visa and Mastercard, but commercial banks warn it could cost them €4–5.8 billion to implement and potentially pull deposits into...
The 2026 Iran war and closure of the Strait of Hormuz triggered an energy price shock that is squeezing factory margins across Southeast Asia, slowing manufacturing growth and weakening PMI momentum even tho...
The European Medicines Agency’s committee has recommended approval of Novo Nordisk’s once‑daily Wegovy pill (oral semaglutide), potentially making it the first oral GLP‑1 weight‑loss treatment in Europe and...
Zerion is winding down its gas‑free Ethereum Layer 2 Zero Network about 18 months after launch and asking users to bridge assets off the chain by July 31, 2026 before block production stops.[33][36]
Reports that Vladimir Putin wants to end the Ukraine war soon are plausible but unconfirmed: they mostly stem from anonymous source reporting, while official Kremlin statements say the conflict may be nearin...
Residents in Rwampara, DR Congo, stormed and burned parts of an Ebola treatment center after authorities refused to release the body of a man suspected of dying from Ebola for a traditional burial; police fi...
Nokia’s AI Networking Innovation Lab in Sunnyvale is a co‑engineering and testing hub where the company and partners design and validate high‑performance networking architectures for massive AI training clus...
The Festival Playlist in Forza Horizon 6 is a rotating weekly challenge system that launched on May 21, 2026 with Series 1: Welcome to Japan; players earn points from seasonal events like races, PR stunts, a...
Bitcoin’s roughly 90‑day rally from the February low near $60,000 is historically unusual and potentially bullish, but analysts say a confirmed bull market likely requires a decisive breakout above key resis...