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OpenAI replaces GPT-4o mini with GPT-4.1 mini in ChatGPT, improving instruction following, coding and overall intelligence for its small model.

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong officiated the groundbreaking of Terminal 5 on the Changi East site, launching the airport's largest expansion. PM Wong said T5 will be as big in land area as all of Changi's current terminals combined and will expand the airport's capacity by more than 50 per cent, serving about 50 million more passengers a year.

PLDT's first-quarter 2025 telco core income fell 6% to ₱8.8 billion, but overall core income held at ₱8.9 billion as digital bank Maya contributed ₱127 million in its first profitable quarter.

The $1.3 billion, 1,600-room Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center opened as the centerpiece of the Port of San Diego and Chula Vista bayfront redevelopment, with a 4.25-acre water park on San Diego Bay. It became the largest hotel in California.

The FCC approved Verizon's $20 billion Frontier purchase after Verizon committed to ending its DEI practices, with Chairman Brendan Carr citing fiber builds of 1 million or more homes a year and commitments to tower crews.

A 5.5-mile walking and biking path on an abandoned freight line along Slauson Avenue, from near the K Line's Fairview Heights station to the A Line's Slauson station, built for $166 million.

Backing out from Pier 17 with 277 people aboard, the Mexican Navy training ship drifted astern into the Brooklyn Bridge, breaking the tops of all three masts; two cadets were killed and at least 19 people injured.

After six months and 73 hearings, a Senate commission said the French state hid Nestlé Waters' use of banned treatments on Perrier, Vittel, Contrex and Hépar, a fraud France's fraud-control agency puts at over 3 billion euros.

Six years after pulling out in 2019, Nike confirmed it will again sell its products directly to Amazon for the US store, part of Elliott Hill's push back into wholesale and marketplace partners.

A Cessna Citation flying a night instrument approach to Montgomery-Gibbs in dense fog hit power lines and came down on a military housing street, igniting a house and 20 vehicles.

Ling Long 2, a Chinese ONA continuing the original series, begins release, following former Wilderness Hunter Commander Marc as he confronts a lighthouse-destroying apocalypse guided by the mysterious Bai Yuekui.

New England's largest music festival returned to the Harvard Athletic Complex for Memorial Day weekend with one fewer stage and cheaper tickets after 2024's overcrowding complaints. Luke Combs, Fall Out Boy and Dave Matthews Band headlined a wet, muddy weekend.

Salesforce signed a deal to buy the data-management company Informatica for $25 a share in cash, about $8 billion in equity value, to feed trusted enterprise data to its Agentforce AI agents.

Maria Smith leaves a corporate career to open a family-run Filipino restaurant in Rogers, Arkansas, with her brother Bill Martfeld cooking from their mother's recipes.

Salesforce opened fiscal 2026 with $9.8 billion of first-quarter revenue, up 8%, and raised the top of its full-year forecast by $400 million, a day after agreeing to buy Informatica.

A groundbreaking on Dyer Avenue between 37th and 39th Streets began the temporary terminal that keeps 8,000 buses a day running while the 1950 building is replaced. The $10 billion scheme was planned to finish in 2032, with new ramps by 2028.

Slack slashed conversations.history and conversations.replies to one request a minute and 15 messages for commercially distributed apps outside its Marketplace, and rewrote its API terms to curb bulk data exports.

Lost in Starlight premieres on Netflix, a South Korean animated science-fiction romance following astronaut hopeful Nan-young and musician Jay as a chance meeting draws them together across very different dreams.

MAPPA recuts the "Hidden Inventory/Premature Death" arc from Jujutsu Kaisen's second season into a standalone theatrical film, adding new footage of Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto's school days before their friendship curdled into rivalry. The arc follows the two strongest sorcerers as they're assigned to protect Riko Amanai, the Star Plasma Vessel, from a cult intent on completing her sacrifice - the mission that ultimately sets both men on their opposing paths.

ADOT wrapped up its largest urban freeway reconstruction, widening 11 miles of Interstate 10 from just south of Ray Road to Interstate 17 near Sky Harbor with extra travel and HOV lanes, collector-distributor roads, a rebuilt SR 143 interchange and new bridges at 48th Street and Broadway Road. Construction had run since summer 2021 and cost more than $800 million.

Chef Bill Briand opens a coastal Southern restaurant in a two-storey house in Fairhope, near Mobile, cooking Cajun-leaning dishes such as a dark-roux gumbo.

Google's threat researchers said a crew posing as IT support on the phone was talking employees into approving a fake Data Loader app, then bulk-stealing their companies' Salesforce data for extortion.

Revenue rose 7% to $2.4 billion but Americas comparable sales fell 2%, and Lululemon lowered its full-year EPS outlook to $14.58-$14.78, sending the shares down about 20% the next day.

OpenAI rolls back an o4-mini snapshot deployed less than a week earlier after its monitoring detected an increase in content flags.

Facing a nearly $1 billion shortfall, Mayor Karen Bass signed Los Angeles's roughly $14 billion 2025-26 budget on the charter deadline, restoring more than 1,000 of the positions her April plan had slated for layoff.

Valley Metro opened the 5.5-mile South Central Extension and Downtown Hub, adding eight stations along Central and 1st avenues down to Baseline Road. The same day the system was restructured into an A Line running to Mesa and a B Line running from Metro Parkway in north-west Phoenix down to Baseline Road, the two meeting at four new downtown platforms.

Metro's $900 million station at Aviation Boulevard and 96th Street joins the C and K lines with 14 bus lines and the LAX shuttles, the first direct train connection to the airport.

President Trump invoked 10 U.S.C. 12406 to call at least 2,000 California National Guard members into federal service for 60 days, over Governor Newsom's objection, to protect ICE agents and federal buildings during the Los Angeles protests.

In a 6-3 vote the council ended a century of free trash pickup, setting a $43.60 monthly fee for the standard 95-gallon bundle, well above the $23-$29 voters were shown for 2022's Measure B.

OpenAI releases o3-pro to Pro users in ChatGPT and in its API, a version of o3 that thinks longer for the most reliable responses.

PLDT shareholders approved the 2024 audited financial statements and elected 13 directors, including three independents, at the annual meeting at the Grand Hyatt Manila in Bonifacio Global City.

A Manhattan jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty of first-degree criminal sexual act for assaulting Miriam Haley in 2006, acquitted him of a charge involving Kaja Sokola, and deadlocked on the rape count involving Jessica Mann.

Declaring a local emergency after 23 businesses were looted, Mayor Karen Bass ordered an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew across roughly a square mile of downtown Los Angeles, bounded by the 5, 10 and 110 freeways, and lifted it a week later.

Cloud Art's donghua adaptation Zhu Xian continues into a third season, extending its wuxia-fantasy saga of rival sects, hidden loyalties, and the legendary Zhuxian Sword.

US District Judge Charles Breyer granted California a temporary restraining order finding the federalization of the state's National Guard illegal and ordering control returned to Governor Newsom, a ruling the Ninth Circuit paused within hours.

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 American fantasy adventure film and a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film by DreamWorks Animation, itself loosely based on the 2003 novel by Cressida Cowell. The film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-wrote and directed the animated film.

Ruling from the bench in Boston, Judge William Young found NIH's termination of about 800 research grants on diversity and LGBTQ health "arbitrary and capricious" and ordered payments to resume, calling the record racial discrimination.

Prosecutors displayed stacks of cash from Rp 11.88 trillion (about US$729 million) handed over by five Wilmar subsidiaries, the biggest seizure in the AGO's history, while their appeal against Wilmar's acquittal was pending.

New York's MTA won final approval for a record $68.4 billion five-year capital plan aimed at modernizing the aging subway, from new train cars to next-generation train control.

A Norfolk Superior Court jury in Dedham acquitted Karen Read of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2022 death of Boston police officer John O'Keefe, convicting her only of drunken driving.

A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel stayed Judge Breyer's order, holding the President was likely to have lawfully federalized California's National Guard under a "highly deferential" review, so the troops stayed under federal command in Los Angeles.