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Blackstone Launches $1.75 Billion Data Center IPO as Wall Street Bets on AI Infrastructure

FinanceMay 14, 2026

Blackstone Launches $1.75 Billion Data Center IPO as Wall Street Bets on AI Infrastructure

Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust (NYSE: BXDC) priced its initial public offering at $20 per share on May 13, 2026, raising up to $2 billion as the first pure-play data center REIT to go public. Shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on May 14 in what analysts call the clearest bet yet on AI-driven infrastructure demand.

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Russia Tests 'Satan 2' Nuclear Missile, Putin Calls It the World's Most Powerful Weapon

WorldMay 14, 2026

Russia Tests 'Satan 2' Nuclear Missile, Putin Calls It the World's Most Powerful Weapon

On May 12, 2026, Russia successfully test-fired its long-delayed RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. President Vladimir Putin declared the silo-based weapon — nicknamed 'Satan 2' by Western analysts — the most powerful missile in the world and confirmed that the first regiment will enter combat duty in Krasnoyarsk by the end of 2026.

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Ancient Amazonian 'Dark Earth' Could Be the Biggest Climate Discovery in Decades

ScienceMay 13, 2026

Ancient Amazonian 'Dark Earth' Could Be the Biggest Climate Discovery in Decades

Researchers studying the Xingu Indigenous Park in Brazil report that pre-Columbian Amazonians deliberately created terra preta — extremely fertile, carbon-rich 'dark earth' — and that modern Kuikuro farmers are still making it today. New estimates put the carbon stored in just one slice of dark-earth soil at more than nine million tonnes, a discovery that experts say could rival the carbon cycle itself in significance for climate science.

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Physicists Place Thousands of Atoms in Two Places at Once in Record Quantum Test

ScienceMay 13, 2026

Physicists Place Thousands of Atoms in Two Places at Once in Record Quantum Test

Researchers in Vienna and Duisburg have placed metallic nanoparticles containing thousands of sodium atoms into a quantum superposition — effectively in two places at once — and confirmed the result with a fourth-order quantum signature. The objects, with masses exceeding 170,000 atomic mass units, push the macroscopic quantum frontier roughly an order of magnitude beyond every previous experiment and offer one of the strongest tests yet of quantum mechanics on scales approaching the everyday world.

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Conan O'Brien Will Host the Oscars for a Third Year in a Row in 2027

EntertainmentMay 13, 2026

Conan O'Brien Will Host the Oscars for a Third Year in a Row in 2027

The Academy announced on May 12 that Conan O'Brien will return to host the 99th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 14, 2027. It will be his third consecutive year as host — the first three-peat since Billy Crystal. Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan will produce for a fourth straight year, with Jeff Ross and Mike Sweeney back as producers and Sweeney serving as head writer.

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AI Chipmaker Cerebras Prices IPO at $160 After Demand Runs 20 Times Oversubscribed

FinanceMay 13, 2026

AI Chipmaker Cerebras Prices IPO at $160 After Demand Runs 20 Times Oversubscribed

Cerebras Systems priced its initial public offering on May 13 at the top of a raised $150 to $160 range after order books closed roughly 20 times oversubscribed. The wafer-scale AI chip maker raised up to $4.8 billion and reached a fully diluted valuation near $48.8 billion. The IPO is the largest US tech listing of 2026 so far and trades on Nasdaq under the ticker CBRS.

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Trump Lands in Beijing for First China State Visit Since 2017

WorldMay 13, 2026

Trump Lands in Beijing for First China State Visit Since 2017

President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on the evening of May 13 for a three-day state visit, his first to China since 2017. He was greeted by Vice President Han Zheng and three hundred Chinese children waving American and Chinese flags. Talks with President Xi Jinping on May 14 and 15 are expected to cover trade, Taiwan, artificial intelligence and the war involving Iran. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and Tesla's Elon Musk traveled to China on Air Force One.

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1,500-Year-Old Maya Altar Found Along Mexico's New Train Route

ScienceMay 13, 2026

1,500-Year-Old Maya Altar Found Along Mexico's New Train Route

Archaeologists working ahead of Mexico's Tren Maya freight extension have unearthed a 1,500-year-old Maya ritual altar near the town of Yaxché de Peón in Yucatán. The three-tiered quadrangular structure dates to the Classic Maya period and is rewriting what experts thought they knew about the region's settlement history.

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New Method Could Detect Alien Life by Reading a Hidden Pattern in Amino Acids

ScienceMay 13, 2026

New Method Could Detect Alien Life by Reading a Hidden Pattern in Amino Acids

A study published in Nature Astronomy on May 12, 2026 proposes a new way to search for alien life: instead of hunting for specific chemicals, scientists can look at the statistical 'shape' of molecules. Living things consistently produce a more diverse, more even mix of amino acids than non-living chemistry does.

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AI Security Startup Exaforce Raises $125 Million to Fight Cyberattacks

TechMay 13, 2026

AI Security Startup Exaforce Raises $125 Million to Fight Cyberattacks

Exaforce, a cybersecurity startup using autonomous AI agents called Exabots to triage and stop digital threats in real time, has closed a $125 million Series B round at a valuation of roughly $725 million. The deal, announced May 12, 2026, signals investor appetite for AI-driven security platforms.

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US Inflation Jumps to 3.8 Percent as Iran War Pushes Up Prices

FinanceMay 13, 2026

US Inflation Jumps to 3.8 Percent as Iran War Pushes Up Prices

U.S. consumer prices climbed 3.8 percent in April 2026, the fastest pace in nearly three years, as the war with Iran continues to push energy costs higher. Diesel has risen 60 percent in a year, and analysts warn the Federal Reserve may be forced to keep rates higher for longer.

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FDA Chief Marty Makary Resigns After Stormy 13 Months

WorldMay 13, 2026

FDA Chief Marty Makary Resigns After Stormy 13 Months

Dr. Marty Makary stepped down as head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on May 12, 2026, after months of clashes with drugmakers, lawmakers, and the White House. President Trump named the FDA's top food regulator, Kyle Diamantas, as acting commissioner.

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Scientists Engineer Algae That Pulls 91 Percent of Microplastics Out of Water in One Hour

ScienceMay 13, 2026

Scientists Engineer Algae That Pulls 91 Percent of Microplastics Out of Water in One Hour

Researchers at the University of Missouri have engineered a strain of algae that captures microplastic particles from water like a living magnet. In a new Nature Communications study, the algae removed 91.4 percent of polystyrene microplastics in just one hour while also cleaning wastewater. The team hopes the technique can be turned into a practical tool for treatment plants and waterways.

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Europe's New Supercomputer Just Simulated a Full 50-Qubit Quantum Computer for the First Time

TechMay 13, 2026

Europe's New Supercomputer Just Simulated a Full 50-Qubit Quantum Computer for the First Time

Researchers in Germany used JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer, to fully simulate a 50-qubit universal quantum computer — beating the previous 48-qubit record. The breakthrough at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre took about two petabytes of memory and could speed up the design of future quantum algorithms long before real quantum hardware reaches the same scale.

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Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Go Dark for Stephen Colbert's Final Late Show

EntertainmentMay 13, 2026

Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Go Dark for Stephen Colbert's Final Late Show

NBC and ABC have confirmed that Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live will both air reruns on Thursday, May 21, the night Stephen Colbert closes out CBS's Late Show after 11 seasons. The two rival hosts said the decision was a gesture of late-night solidarity for a colleague whose show was canceled in 2025.

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Cloudflare Cuts 1,100 Jobs and Blames the Boom in Its Own AI Tools

FinanceMay 13, 2026

Cloudflare Cuts 1,100 Jobs and Blames the Boom in Its Own AI Tools

Cloudflare announced it is laying off about 1,100 employees, roughly 20 percent of its workforce, even as the company reported record revenue of $639.8 million for the first quarter of 2026. Chief executive Matthew Prince said internal use of artificial intelligence has grown more than 600 percent in three months, making many existing roles unnecessary.

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New 65-Foot Dinosaur Found by a Shepherd in Patagonia Rewrites Jurassic Family Tree

WorldMay 13, 2026

New 65-Foot Dinosaur Found by a Shepherd in Patagonia Rewrites Jurassic Family Tree

A new sauropod named Bicharracosaurus dionidei has been described from fossils that a sheep farmer first stumbled on in Argentina's Cañadón Calcáreo Formation. The 20-meter-long Late Jurassic giant blends features from two famous dinosaur lineages and may be the first known South American brachiosaurid, filling a major gap in the global fossil record.

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Brazil's Ancient 'Animal Tracks' Were Actually Microbes, Rewriting the Dawn of Animal Life

ScienceMay 13, 2026

Brazil's Ancient 'Animal Tracks' Were Actually Microbes, Rewriting the Dawn of Animal Life

A study in Gondwana Research finds that 540-million-year-old structures in Mato Grosso do Sul, long believed to be the trails of early worms, were actually colonies of microscopic algae and bacteria. The discovery pushes back when complex animals first appeared in the fossil record and suggests Ediacaran oceans may have held far less oxygen than was previously thought.

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Google Says It Caught Hackers Using AI to Build a First-Ever Zero-Day Cyberattack

TechMay 13, 2026

Google Says It Caught Hackers Using AI to Build a First-Ever Zero-Day Cyberattack

Google's Threat Intelligence Group reported on May 11 that it disrupted a criminal hacking group that was using an artificial intelligence model to plan a 'mass exploitation event' against a popular web-based admin tool. The incident is the first publicly documented case of an AI-generated zero-day vulnerability built to bypass two-factor authentication.

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Michael Jackson Biopic Crosses 500 Million Dollars and Smashes Music Biopic Records

EntertainmentMay 13, 2026

Michael Jackson Biopic Crosses 500 Million Dollars and Smashes Music Biopic Records

Lionsgate's 'Michael,' directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Jaafar Jackson as his late uncle, has now surpassed 581 million dollars at the global box office. The film already holds the record for the largest worldwide opening for a music biopic and has become the fifth highest-grossing biographical film of all time.

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Sony Music Closes $4 Billion Deal for Bieber, Beyonce and Neil Young Catalogs

FinanceMay 13, 2026

Sony Music Closes $4 Billion Deal for Bieber, Beyonce and Neil Young Catalogs

Sony Music Publishing has agreed to acquire Blackstone's Recognition Music Group catalog of more than 45,000 songs in a transaction valued between $3.5 and $4 billion. The portfolio bundles works by Justin Bieber, Beyonce, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Rihanna, and would be one of the largest publishing deals on record.

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NHS Rolls Out One-Minute Cancer Injection to Tens of Thousands of Patients

WorldMay 13, 2026

NHS Rolls Out One-Minute Cancer Injection to Tens of Thousands of Patients

The UK's National Health Service has begun administering a new injectable form of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) that cuts immunotherapy treatment time from up to two hours to as little as 60 seconds. Approved for fourteen cancer types and rolled out from May 11, the subcutaneous jab is expected to free up thousands of hours of chemotherapy chair time across England and Wales.

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A 29-Pound Mars Rock Held NASA's Curiosity Rover Captive for Six Days

SpaceMay 13, 2026

A 29-Pound Mars Rock Held NASA's Curiosity Rover Captive for Six Days

NASA's Curiosity rover spent six days trying to shake loose a stubborn Martian rock nicknamed 'Atacama' that lifted off the surface and stayed wedged on its drill. After multiple tilts, vibrations and rotations, the team finally freed the 13-kilogram rock — the first time in 14 years of operations that a target stone clung to the drill itself.

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Scientists Discover the Brain's Hidden 'Stop-Scratching' Switch

ScienceMay 13, 2026

Scientists Discover the Brain's Hidden 'Stop-Scratching' Switch

Researchers have identified TRPV4, a single ion channel inside sensory neurons, as the body's built-in brake on scratching. Mice without it could not stop once they began, and the finding could reshape how chronic itch conditions like eczema and psoriasis are treated.

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