Regenxbio's gene therapy RGX-202 met the primary endpoint of its pivotal Phase III AFFINITY DUCHENNE trial, with 93% of participants reaching the microdystrophin expression threshold.
NASA's Hubble has imaged IRAS 23077+6707, a protoplanetary disk nicknamed Dracula's Chivito that spans nearly 400 billion miles and shows asymmetric filaments unlike any disk seen before.
Microsoft's new Autonomous Code Security team disclosed MDASH alongside its May 2026 Patch Tuesday, crediting the multi-model agentic scanner with 16 Windows vulnerabilities — four of them critical RCEs — and an 88.45 percent score on CyberGym.
Researchers led by Leibniz Hannover, Stuttgart, and Nanjing have published the first time-bin QKD link driven by an on-demand telecom quantum dot, holding stable across 120 km of standard fiber for six hours straight.
Researchers at Aalto University demonstrated they can connect a continuous time crystal to a mechanical oscillator without destroying it, turning the exotic quantum state into an optomechanics-like platform that ran for up to 108 cycles.
Ivanti disclosed an actively exploited authenticated RCE in Endpoint Manager Mobile alongside four other high-severity flaws. CISA added it to KEV on May 7 with a May 10 federal patch deadline.
Katalyst Space Technologies finished thermal-vacuum and vibration testing of its LINK servicing spacecraft at NASA Goddard on May 4, 2026, on track for a June Pegasus XL launch to raise the Swift Observatory's decaying orbit.
OpenAI launched GPT-5.5-Cyber on May 7, 2026 to vetted security teams via its Trusted Access for Cyber program, after CEO Sam Altman publicly criticized Anthropic's restricted Mythos rollout.
AMD and Intel released the AI Compute Extensions specification, marking the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group's first joint matrix-multiplication standard since the rivals formed the consortium in October 2024 to fend off Arm.
The New York AI startup, used by 35,000 finance professionals at firms like Rothschild and Jefferies, brought total funding past $300 million to scale Felix, its autonomous deal-workflow agent.
Brussels' first review of the Digital Markets Act concludes the law needs no overhaul, declines to designate generative AI as a new core platform service, and shifts focus toward cloud gatekeeper probes and a Google Android AI specification.
Release manager Hugo van Kemenade postponed Python 3.15.0 beta 1 by two days to May 7, 2026, marking the feature freeze for one of the language's largest releases in years.