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On 2 May 2026 Greg Abel led Berkshire Hathaway's first annual shareholder meeting since Warren Buffett gave up the CEO title, giving a business update and taking questions in two sessions with Ajit Jain, Adam Johnson and Katie Farmer.

On 2 May 2026 Greg Abel led Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting for the first time as CEO, with Warren Buffett attending as chairman, while Berkshire reported first-quarter operating earnings of US$11.3 billion.

IKEA shut its only Tennessee store after nearly a decade, taking 114 jobs with it. The company called the closure part of a strategic shift, decided on a review of "market share, business performance, cost structure, and overall optimization of physical assets"; Mid-South customers keep online ordering and FedEx pickup.

Lan Hongchun's Teochew-language family drama Dear You (给阿嬷的情书) went nationwide in China on 3 May 2026 after premiering in Shantou on 17 April. Made for ¥14 million, it became a sleeper hit with over ¥1.9 billion at the box office.

On 4 May 2026 Antofagasta's environmental evaluation commission unanimously approved CRAMSA's Aguas Maritimas project, a roughly US$5 billion seawater desalination plant at Caleta Bolfin that would reach 700,000 cubic metres a day and supply Antofagasta, Sierra Gorda and Calama.

Siemens reported US$1 billion of domestic manufacturing investments over five years, supporting more than 2,200 jobs. The cumulative milestone spans electrical infrastructure and passenger rail projects, with facilities coming online during 2026.

VCF 9.1 is Broadcom's private-cloud platform release for AI inference and agentic workloads, promising up to 40% lower server costs through memory tiering and mixed AMD, Intel and NVIDIA hardware; its release notes are dated 12 May.

Tableau's annual conference took over the San Diego Convention Center for three days, where Tableau recast itself as an agentic analytics platform built on 33 million semantic models.

Broadcom and VMware International asked the EU General Court to annul the Commission's 26 February 2026 information decision in case AT.40924, in so far as it compels documents held outside the EU and legal advice privileged under US and other non-EU law (Case T-280/26).

Lilly committed an additional US$4.5 billion to Lebanon API and Lebanon Advanced Therapies, taking Indiana capital expansion commitments since 2020 above US$21 billion. It also opened its dedicated genetic-medicine manufacturing facility.

Six months after its 13,000-job cut, Verizon confirmed a new round of several hundred layoffs, under 1 percent of its workforce, falling hardest on its Basking Ridge, New Jersey campus.

McDonald's reported first-quarter 2026 global comparable sales up 3.8% and Systemwide sales up 11% (6% in constant currencies), with adjusted EPS of US$2.83 beating analyst estimates.

Seven consumers filed a proposed class action against Nike in federal court in Oregon on 8 May 2026, saying it passed IEEPA tariff costs on through higher prices and should not keep the refunds it stands to get after the Supreme Court struck the tariffs down.

LA Metro opened Section 1 of the D Line subway extension, carrying the Wilshire Boulevard subway 3.9 miles west of Wilshire/Western to new stations at La Brea, Fairfax and La Cienega. It is the line's first extension since 1996 and the first of three sections Metro wants running before the 2028 Olympics.