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• Instagram is highlighting a new Reels trend where creators pair dreamy lifestyle clips with the text “Maybe in another life… no this one!” • The trend encourages users to stop waiting for the future and instead celebrate their current wins and life experiences. • This reflective and wholesome content strategy is designed to help creators elevate their IG engagement through emotional storytelling.

• British actor Anthony Head, known for his roles in *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* and *Ted Lasso*, has died at the age of 72. • The actor passed away due to complications resulting from pneumonia. • Head was a versatile performer with a prolific career that included appearances in *Merlin* and *Little Britain*.

Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of 1990s leader Alberto, is vying with a congressman to become country’s ninth president in a decadePeruvians go to the polls on Sunday in an election runoff that pits a perennial rightwing candidate, Keiko Fujimori, against a leftist congressman, Roberto Sánchez. Amid rising crime, chronic political instability, corruption scandals and voter apathy, they are vying to become Peru’s ninth president in a decade.Fujimori, who is the daughter of the late president Alberto Fujimori, won 17% of the vote in the first round in April. Sánchez, a former trade and tourism minister, took 12 % of the vote, edging out Rafael López Aliaga, an ultra-conservative former Lima mayor. The stage is set for a polarised left-right replay of the country’s last election in 2021. Continue reading...

• Imperative Business Ventures Limited has released a curated roundup of notable Large Language Model (LLM) research papers published between January and May 2026. • The list highlights a growing trend toward hybrid architectures that alternate between attention and alternative layers to optimize performance. • A key example cited is the Qwen3.6 open-weight LLM series, which utilizes Gated DeltaNet layers instead of Mamba-2 layers for its non-attention components.

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed that the U.S. government take an equity stake in the company to ensure AI's economic benefits are shared with the public. • According to NOTUS, Altman first pitched this concept to President Donald Trump early last year, signaling a strategic effort to align the company with federal interests. • This move matters as it represents a potential shift in how the government interacts with private AI giants, moving from mere regulation to direct ownership or profit-sharing.

Eighteen-year-old man arrested after car collides with cyclist Anthony Canty, who died in hospital four days laterA lottery winner has died after a suspected hit-and-run in Essex, police said.Officers were called to the collision between a cyclist and a black Ford Ka in Tiptree at 6.30am on 21 May. The cyclist, a man in his 30s, was taken to hospital where he died four days later, Essex police said. Continue reading...

• The upcoming World Cup will feature an expanded format with 48 teams and 104 matches hosted across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. • The event faces unprecedented security challenges due to its scale and the current climate of global tensions and rising political violence. • To manage risks, the tournament has been granted a high-level federal security designation, similar to the Super Bowl, to ensure seamless coordination between federal, state, and local agencies.

Governor issued disaster declaration as agencies move to stop spread of parasite, including release of sterile fliesA second case of the flesh-eating screwworm fly has been confirmed in Texas by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), days after an initial case in a one-year-old calf set off an aggressive response to stop the spread of the parasite in the dominant cattle-producing state.Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, said on Friday that state officials were working with the federal government to slow the spread of the fly and the infestations caused by larvae that feed on the living flesh of warm-blooded animals and humans. Continue reading...