On May 10, actor C. Joseph Vijay was sworn in as Tamil Nadu's first non-Dravidian chief minister since 1967. The same week, BJP swept West Bengal, Kerala flipped back to Congress, and Assam stayed saffron. The 2026 state polls just reset how Delhi will plan the 2029 general election.
Argentina has logged 101 confirmed hantavirus cases this season, nearly double the year before, with mortality running near 35%. Then a passenger boarded the MV Hondius at Ushuaia and the virus left the country. Eight cases, three deaths, and a WHO alert across five continents.
Anthropic signed a roughly $200 billion, five-year deal with Google Cloud for ~5 gigawatts of compute on Google's TPUs. Alphabet invests up to $40 billion in return. The center of gravity for Claude training shifts away from AWS.