Rockstar still hasn't officially opened GTA 6 pre-orders, but Best Buy leaked an internal email pointing to May 18-21 as the pre-order launch window, with a 5% discount for those who reserve during those days. The official price remains unconfirmed but Take-Two placed it between $70 and $80. Take-Two's May 21 earnings call is the most likely moment for the official announcement and the third trailer.

On May 12, 2026, Donald Trump departed for Beijing aboard Air Force One alongside a delegation of 16 CEOs from the most powerful companies in the United States. Elon Musk, Apple's Tim Cook and Nvidia's Jensen Huang traveled together for the first time on a diplomatic mission. On the agenda: trade, artificial intelligence, tariffs, Taiwan and Iran. The meeting with Xi Jinping took place on May 14 at the Great Hall of the People.

In April 2026, Lisuan Technology became the fourth company in history to obtain Microsoft's WHQL driver certification for a GPU — after Nvidia, AMD and Intel. Its LX 7G106 card, built on 6nm, has 12 GB of GDDR6 and benchmarks that place it at RTX 4060 level. It goes on sale June 18 in China. This isn't smoke: it's the first Chinese gaming GPU to cross the minimum bar to compete seriously.

Starlink’s unlimited roaming plan has become significantly more expensive while the company also tightens Fair Use, congestion and traffic prioritization policies. Many users still think “unlimited” means unrestricted high-speed internet, but the reality is becoming much more complicated.

Artificial intelligence models have become so powerful in coding, vulnerability discovery and automation that the United States government is now reviewing some systems before they reach the public. OpenAI, Google, xAI and Anthropic are already participating in official evaluations focused on cybersecurity and national security risks.

Take-Two confirmed that GTA 6 doesn't use generative artificial intelligence in its content — but does use it in internal development processes. At the same time, code leaks reveal systems called AIMemory and LifePath that promise NPCs with real memory, daily routines and reactions that evolve over time. Here's the difference between what's confirmed and what's been leaked.

ChatGPT suffered a global outage on April 20, 2026. The service was down for approximately 90 minutes starting at 10:05 AM ET, affecting conversations, login, voice mode, image generation and the API. OpenAI applied a fix around 12:48 PM ET and the service was gradually restored.

On April 17, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Design: a conversational tool that turns text descriptions into interactive prototypes, presentations, landing pages and marketing materials. It runs on Claude Opus 4.7, is available to Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscribers, and requires no design knowledge. On the same day as launch, Figma's stock fell 7%.

Splashdown is not the moment a mission truly ends. It is the beginning of a tightly controlled recovery sequence that can take quite a while before astronauts are allowed to leave the capsule. In Artemis II, the crew did not step out immediately because the area had to be secured first, possible chemical hazards had to be checked, Orion had to be stabilized, and medical teams needed to assess the astronauts inside the spacecraft.

Anthropic demanded that an open-source project change its name because it was called "Claudebot." Then it blocked OpenCode and other third-party tools from using Claude with subscription credentials. The developer community exploded. Ten days later, the Claude Code source code leaked. This is the complete story of the loudest conflict between Anthropic and the developer community in 2026.

Bitcoin was born in 2009 with no value. In 2010 it was worth less than a cent. In 2024 it crossed $100,000 for the first time. In October 2025 it hit its all-time high of over $126,000. This is the complete story of the world's first and most powerful cryptocurrency: where it came from, how it got here and what made it survive crises, hacks, a pandemic and government bans.