The World Health Organization has escalated its response to a rapidly evolving Ebola outbreak in central Africa, determining on 16 May 2026 that the epidemic caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and imported cases…
OpenAI’s recent shift to an “instant” default for ChatGPT has recalibrated expectations about how quickly and cheaply advanced AI should be available. In early May 2026 the company published a GPT‑5.5 Instant system card and rolled the instant variant into…
On April 27, 2026, OpenAI and Microsoft announced a restructured partnership that ends Microsoft’s effective exclusivity to sell OpenAI’s models and allows OpenAI to serve its products across any cloud provider. The companies described the change as a “next phase”…
On April 25, 2026, gunfire erupted near the screening area for the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton, abruptly ending an event attended by the president, cabinet members, lawmakers and hundreds of journalists. The incident, in which…
The European Union recently moved to create a common reporting and rating scheme for data centres while simultaneously allowing important facility-level metrics to be withheld as confidential. That change,embedded in implementing measures for the Energy Efficiency Directive and its delegated…
The European Union is sharpening regulatory guardrails for artificial intelligence while debates over flexibility and innovation intensify. Policymakers in Brussels frame the effort as creating trust and legal certainty for businesses and citizens even as developers and some industry groups…
Mastodon’s decision to formally join the World Wide Web Consortium in March 2026 is more than a symbolic milestone for one open-source platform. It marks a shift in who gets to shape the next phase of the social web’s technical…
Rapid snowmelt across the American West this spring is reshaping water forecasts, straining supply planning and forcing utilities and states to revise operations amid an unusually warm and low-snow winter. As reservoirs and river basins await the seasonal runoff pulse,…
The European Union is intensifying efforts to rein in greenhouse-gas and resource impacts from data centres as demand from large AI models and hyperscale cloud services accelerates. Policymakers in Brussels are proposing a mix of binding environmental standards, mandatory measurement…
Across the United States and in other technology hubs worldwide, employers increasingly point to artificial intelligence as a driver of recent workforce reductions, a trend that is reshaping local economies, real estate markets and civic life in once-stable tech towns.…