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King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 25km deep sewer built to stop billions of litres of sewage overflowing into the Thames each year.

De Beers Group said it intends to close Lightbox, the lab-grown diamond jewellery brand it launched in 2018, after wholesale lab-grown prices fell 90% and diverged sharply from natural diamonds.

The FDA approves Teal Health's Teal Wand, the first device that lets women collect their own vaginal sample at home for HPV-based cervical cancer screening instead of a speculum exam.

OpenAI improves GPT-4o's system instructions so ChatGPT calls its image generation tool when users want an image.

Qualcomm added Christopher Young, Microsoft's executive vice president for business development, strategy and ventures and a former McAfee CEO, to its board and its HR and Compensation Committee.

At the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh, Qualcomm and Saudi Arabia's national AI company HUMAIN agreed to develop AI data centres and supply Qualcomm data-centre CPU and AI chips, with a Qualcomm chip design centre for the Kingdom.

OpenAI brings GPT-4.1, a coding-focused model first released in the API in April, to ChatGPT for Plus, Pro and Team users.

Tic Tac's new sugar-free mint is twice the size of the original, with two layers of contrasting flavour, in Raspberry & Lemon, Strawberry & Lime and Fresh & Mild Spearmint.

LTA Research's Pathfinder 1, the largest aircraft in the world, flew beyond its Moffett Field base in California and over San Francisco Bay for the first time on 15 May 2025 - the first rigid airship of its size to fly since the 1930s. Its larger successor, Pathfinder 3, is being built in the century-old Goodyear Akron Airdock.

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 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.

Nordstrom shareholders approved the $6.25 billion take-private merger with the Nordstrom family and El Puerto de Liverpool at a virtual special meeting, with more than 99% of votes cast backing the deal and minority shareholders separately clearing the required majority.

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.

The WNBA's 2025 expansion team made its regular-season debut before 18,064 at San Francisco's Chase Center, losing 84-67 to the Los Angeles Sparks.

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.

At their 19 May 2025 summit the UK and EU agreed full reciprocal access to each other's fishing waters until 30 June 2038, a 12-year extension that replaces annual access talks, as part of a reset that also eases food and shellfish exports.

Chanel reported 2024 revenues of $18.7 billion, down 4.3%, and operating profit down 30% to $4.5 billion, even as it made record capital investments of $1.76 billion in boutiques and client experience.

In the Oval Office, Donald Trump unveiled Golden Dome, a planned shield of space-based sensors and interceptors against ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missiles, putting its cost at $175 billion.

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.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4 beside Claude Opus 4, a free-tier upgrade to Claude 3.7 Sonnet that scores 72.7% on SWE-bench Verified at $3 per million input tokens and powers GitHub Copilot's new coding agent.

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.

The EU's Consumer Protection Cooperation Network, coordinated by the European Commission and led by authorities in Belgium, France, Ireland and the Netherlands, notified Shein on 26 May 2025 that practices on its platform, including fake discounts, breach EU consumer law. Shein was given one month to propose fixes.

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.

The Council of the EU adopted Security Action for Europe (SAFE), which lets member states borrow up to EUR 150 billion in long-term EU loans for joint purchases of weapons and equipment, mostly sourced in the EU, EEA-EFTA states or Ukraine.

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.

Taylor Swift bought the original recordings of her first six albums from Shamrock Capital, ending the six-year fight over her Big Machine catalogue: 'All of the music I've ever made... now belongs to me.'

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.

Ukraine's Security Service launched drones hidden in trucks against Russian strategic bomber bases as far as Siberia; Zelensky said 117 drones were used and reports citing the SBU said 41 bombers were hit, while Russia said several planes caught fire.

Qualcomm's June 2025 security bulletin fixed three flaws in its Adreno GPU driver that Google's Threat Analysis Group said may be under limited, targeted exploitation; CISA ordered US agencies to patch by 24 June.

Constellation Brands closed the sale of its mainstream wine brands - Woodbridge, Meiomi, Robert Mondavi Private Selection, Cook's, SIMI and J. Rogét - to The Wine Group, keeping only wines mostly priced at $15 and above.

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.