Testing by the U.K. AI Security Institute found Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview could autonomously complete a multi‑step corporate network attack simulation that would take a skilled human about 20 hours,...
Ingredion has made a preliminary £2.74 billion ($3.7 billion) approach to acquire Tate & Lyle, offering 595p per share in cash plus up to 20p in dividends (615p total), a roughly 64% premium to the company’s...
Sustainable AI Group (SAIG), launched May 13, 2026 by Sasha Luccioni and Boris Gamazaychikov, helps enterprises measure AI’s environmental impact and use procurement, contracts, and vendor selection to press...
During the Iran war, Brent oil and the U.S. dollar have risen together because the conflict simultaneously creates a global oil supply shock and a financial‑market risk shock, boosting oil prices while also...
Gold is trending toward a weekly loss because stronger‑than‑expected U.S. inflation reduced expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts, pushing the dollar and Treasury yields higher and making non‑yielding b...
Scientists say El Niño is increasingly likely to develop by mid‑2026, potentially amplifying global heatwaves, droughts, floods, and wildfire risk—but official forecasts do not yet confirm a “super El Niño,”...
The Beijing summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping combined diplomacy and business: Trump said China would buy 200 Boeing aircraft, both leaders said Iran should not obtain nuclear weapons and the Strait...
The Energy Transitions Commission argues that accelerating electrification, efficiency, and renewable power could reduce oil demand by an amount equal to all oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz by about...
Physicists showed that if four basic assumptions about particle scattering are imposed—quantum mechanics, special relativity, locality, and the existence of spin‑2 particles—the only consistent solution repr...
The U.S. has approved Nvidia to sell H200 AI chips to roughly 10 Chinese companies—including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com—but as of mid‑May 2026 no shipments have occurred because Chinese regulato...
South Korea’s KOSPI crossed 8,000 for the first time on May 15, 2026, driven primarily by an AI‑fueled semiconductor boom led by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, strong buying from domestic retail investors...
“AI doxxing” refers to chatbots revealing real people’s phone numbers or home addresses—often pulled from public records or training data—leading to harassment, scams, and privacy risks; several reported cas...