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In his landmark trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk testified that he was deceived into funding the company , and argued he was trying to save OpenAI's mission to develop AI safely by resto

Toyota's Woven City is a $10 billion 'living laboratory' where the company tests futuristic mobility technologies with real residents , located at a former factory site in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefec

The Trump administration has brought onshore wind development to a halt, with the Pentagon holding up approvals for approximately 165 wind projects on private lands, citing national security concerns.

A startup called Sonic Fire Tech has developed an infrasound-based fire suppression system that disrupts oxygen flow to flames by vibrating oxygen at rates fire cannot consume, without using water or

Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain were directly struck by drones in March 2026, causing structural damage and disrupting power delivery. The facilities were damaged in drone stri

During its Q2 2026 earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that Mac mini and Mac Studio may take several months to reach supply-demand balance. Apple underestimated demand for these products, which h

A 78-year-old man with a 6-month history of progressive skin lesions developed the condition after returning from Florida. The case was diagnosed as disseminated Acanthamoeba infection through PCR tes

Minnesota passed the nation's first ban on 'nudification' apps in a 65-0 Senate vote , addressing nonconsensual deepfake imagery where photographs of fully clothed people are manipulated with generati

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy returned to flight this week, marking its first mission of 2026 by launching a heavy-lift payload for the US Space Force. Russia's Soyuz-5 rocket lifted off on April 30 from Baik

Research analyzing 18 scorpion species revealed distinct patterns of metal enrichment in their weapons, with zinc concentrated at stinger tips and zinc or zinc-iron combinations along pincer cutting e

The U.S. Senate voted unanimously to ban senators and Senate staff from participating in prediction markets . The action was prompted by insider trading concerns, particularly after Kalshi suspended a

Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack , with the hacktivist group The Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq, aka 313 Team claiming re

Virgin Galactic has completed assembly of its first Delta-class SpaceShip and begun ground testing in April 2026, with a second ship expected to enter service between late Q4 2026 and early Q1 2027. T

Three women from Arizona filed a lawsuit alleging that an artificial intelligence platform and related companies scraped their social media photos and turned them into explicit AI-generated content wi

China will ban the sale of drones in Beijing and require users to apply for permission for all flights in the capital under strict regulations entering force on May 1, 2026. Officials have cited publi

Blue Origin aims to reuse its New Glenn booster every 30 days or less during 2026 , reflecting aggressive launch rate targets to meet customer demand. New Glenn is scheduled to launch Blue Origin's Bl

During cross-examination in Musk's OpenAI trial testimony in April 2026, OpenAI's attorney William Savitt highlighted inconsistencies in Musk's recollection of a 2018 term sheet, with Musk claiming he

Microsoft released the earliest known DOS source code materials on the 45th anniversary of 86-DOS 1.00, including source listings for the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel, PC-DOS 1.00 development snapshots, and uti

Scientists have reengineered bacteria to run a core part of their cellular machinery with just 19 amino acids instead of the standard 20 , focusing on eliminating isoleucine through AI-guided protein

The Trump administration has appealed a federal judge's ruling that blocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s overhaul of the nation's childhood vaccine schedule . The March 16, 2026 federal co

CVE-2026-31431 ('Copy Fail'), a high local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel, was publicly disclosed on April 29, 2026, affecting every mainstream Linux distribution shipping kern

President Trump nominated radiologist and Fox News contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier for surgeon general , replacing Dr. Casey Means whose nomination stalled in the Senate over questions about her experi

A spent Falcon 9 upper stage from a lunar lander mission launched in January 2025 is projected to impact the Moon on August 5, 2026 . The roughly 4,000-kilogram upper stage is projected to impact at a

The FCC ordered Disney's ABC to file license renewals for all eight of its owned television stations by May 28, 2026 , years ahead of their original schedule . The FCC cited Disney's diversity, equity

'Rise,' a plush zero‑gravity indicator originally created by 9‑year‑old designer Lucas Ye and flown aboard Orion’s Artemis II mission, is now sold as an official NASA collectible through the NASA Exch

Drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East during military conflict, with two facilities in the UAE directly struck and a facility in Bahrain damaged by proximity

Roku's Howdy, launched in August 2025, is the company's first paid, ad-free streaming service priced at $2.99 per month . The service surpassed 1 million subscribers in eight months since launch, acco

Motorola announced its 2026 Razr lineup featuring familiar designs with price increases across all models. The lineup received battery upgrades, with the base Razr gaining a 4,800mAh cell, the Razr+ r

Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's motion for a new trial on April 28, 2026, determining that his arguments lacked legal merit and relied on evidence that was neither new nor c

Nvidia demonstrated Neural Texture Compression technology at GTC 2026, which uses small neural networks to compress game textures and reconstruct them in real time using the GPU's Tensor Cores, reduci

I need to verify this information before creating a knowledge base entry, as it's a specific claim about OpenAI's Codex system prompt. OpenAI implemented explicit guardrails in its Codex tool to preve

A study by researchers at the University of Connecticut School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business found that racial diversity on college campuses results in higher earnings for gradua

Seven California-based lawsuits allege that OpenAI could have prevented Canada’s deadliest school shooting by not reporting a flagged ChatGPT account to law‑enforcement. Safety‑team experts had identi

On April 22, 2026, attackers hijacked Checkmarx's KICS security scanner and Bitwarden's CLI within hours of each other, both using the same command-and-control domain in a coordinated supply chain cam

GM's Super Cruise hands-free driving system has reached 1 billion cumulative miles driven across nearly 750,000 vehicles , marking a major achievement since the feature's 2017 debut. Nearly half of th

A 74-year-old man developed a severe, rapidly progressing infection after sustaining a wound while swimming in warm, brackish waters off Florida's Gulf Coast. Within three days, his limbs showed signs

GitHub is transitioning GitHub Copilot to a usage-based billing model to manage escalating AI inference costs. Effective June 1, subscribers will receive a set allotment of 'AI Credits'

Japan Airlines and GMO AI & Robotics announced a three-year demonstration experiment to test humanoid robots for ground handling tasks at Tokyo's Haneda Airport beginning in May 2026, aimed at reducin

Neanderthal and modern human brains from the same time period had similar sizes , though average Neanderthal brain volume was roughly 1410 cm³, higher than the mean value for humans today . However, w

NASA officially delayed Artemis III to no earlier than 2027 in December 2024 , with the launch currently targeted for Q2 2027 . The mission will launch crew on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket car

Zoox approached robotaxi design by prioritizing autonomous operation requirements over traditional vehicle constraints, with sensor placement as a foundational design decision. Sensors positioned on t

The expansion of AI infrastructure across the United States has sparked significant debate between urban and rural areas, with large tech companies and the federal government advocating for data cente

Northrop Grumman confirmed corrosion in both the HALO and I-HAB modules of NASA's Lunar Gateway space station, citing a 'manufacturing irregularity.' The company attributed the issue to the French-Ita

Legacy, launched in 2023, was a blockchain business simulator that raised $54 million via a virtual 'land sale' in 2021 , but tanked almost immediately after launching . Molyneux later stated that fun

All 22 members of the National Science Board, which advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation, were fired on April 24 without explanation. Members received no explanation for their termi

Scientists are concerned about the upcoming El Niño because it's developing against the backdrop of already-elevated global temperatures from climate change, which could create a 'perfect storm' of cl