AVEVA and AWS signed a multi‑year Strategic Collaboration Agreement in May 2026 to expand AVEVA’s CONNECT industrial intelligence platform on AWS, combining cloud infrastructure, generative AI tools like Ama...
Copper prices are weakening due to macroeconomic pressure—weak Chinese industrial data, a stronger U.S.
Ukraine regained localized battlefield initiative in early 2026 by increasing counterattacks, exploiting a drone advantage, and striking Russian logistics and energy infrastructure; by February it had recapt...
Polymarket has launched prediction markets tied to private companies such as OpenAI and SpaceX, letting users trade contracts on valuation milestones, IPO timing, and other events, with outcomes resolved usi...
DreamWorks Animation’s MoonRay—an open‑source production path‑tracing renderer used on every DreamWorks feature film since 2019—has joined the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), shifting its development int...
Taiwan President Lai Ching‑te said Taiwan will “never be sacrificed or traded away” and that its future must be decided by its own people, responding to concern after Donald Trump’s post‑summit comments abou...
Sony’s $649 1000X “The ColleXion” is a luxury 10‑year anniversary version of the company’s flagship noise‑canceling headphones, positioned above the $399 WH‑1000XM6 and even pricier than Apple’s $549 AirPods...
Samsung Electronics faces a potential 18‑day strike starting May 21 after wage negotiations with its largest union collapsed.
Cuba says it has run out of diesel and fuel oil, pushing its power grid into crisis and causing blackouts of up to 20–22 hours a day in parts of Havana while protests spread across the capital [2][8].
Checker is a stablecoin infrastructure startup that raised $8M from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, and Framework Ventures to provide banks a single API for accessing global stablecoin liquidity; the plat...
Blackstone abandoned an investor consortium exploring a roughly €2.5 billion takeover of German media company Ströer in May 2026, effectively collapsing the proposed bid; reports confirm the withdrawal but g...
The ESA–China SMILE satellite launched on 19 May 2026 aboard a Vega‑C rocket to study how the solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic shield, combining X‑ray and ultraviolet imaging with particle and magn...