Spotify partners with Live Nation to launch Reserved, a new feature that sets aside tickets for the most dedicated fans, starting with Premium users in the US  —  The streaming service will use streams and shares to determine an artist's most dedicated fans and set aside pairs of tickets …

SpaceX files publicly for its IPO, choosing Nasdaq to make its debut under the symbol SPCX; Elon Musk's shares give him 85.1% of the voting power in the company  —  SpaceX filed publicly for what stands to be the largest-ever initial public offering, revealing billions in losses …

GitHub links the breach of 3,800 internal repositories to the TanStack npm supply-chain attack, saying hackers used a malicious Nx Console VS Code extension  —  GitHub says the hackers who breached 3,800 internal repositories gained access via a malicious version of the Nx Console VS Code extension …

The White House postpones a planned ceremony this afternoon for Trump to sign a new EO on AI and cybersecurity; Trump says “I didn't like certain aspects of it”  —  The White House has cancelled its planned ceremony for President Trump to sign a new executive order on AI and cybersecurity, per a note seen by Axios.

Flipper unveils the Flipper One, a pocketable open Arm Linux computer with similar performance to a Raspberry Pi 5, and welcomes feedback to get it market-ready  —  But the devs admit there's still a lot of work to be done to get the Flipper One market-ready, and they are looking for contributors.

The US Commerce Department plans to award $2B in grants to nine quantum computing companies and will take equity stakes; IBM is set to get $1B of the package  —  Trump administration hopes to spur ‘a new era of American innovation,’ Commerce's Lutnick says  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration …

Bluesky and Clemson University researchers detail a novel Russian influence campaign that hijacked influential Bluesky accounts to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda  —  The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users' accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic.

Waymo suspends operations in Atlanta and San Antonio as its robotaxis struggle with flooded roads and says it has yet to develop a “final remedy” for flooding  —  Waymo has now paused service in two cities because its robotaxis are struggling to deal with heavy rain and flooded roads …

Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones  —  Apple has frequently touted the use of professional-grade iPhones by filmmakers to make shorts, commercials and even feature-length movies.

Analysis: Samsung is set to distribute ~$26.6B to its 78,000 chip employees, or a ~$340K bonus to each, in early 2027 as part of a last-minute labor union deal  —  Samsung Electronics Co. could distribute about 40 trillion won ($26.6 billion) to chip employees as a bonus for this year …

Crypto exchange Blockchain.com confidentially files for a US IPO; the UK-based company founded in 2011 was once valued at $14B  —  Long-running crypto exchange Blockchain.com has confidentially filed to take its business public via the U.S. markets.  —  In brief

Jeff Bezos dismisses AI job fears, defends billionaires against “vilification”, proposes eliminating income taxes for low earners, and praises President Trump  —  VIDEO 54:38  —  Watch CNBC's full interview with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos  —  Ultrabillionaire Jeff Bezos …

London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocks the Met police's £50M Palantir deal to automate intelligence analysis, citing a “clear and serious breach” of procurement rules  —  Exclusive: Scotland Yard had been in talks to use Palantir's AI technology to automate intelligence analysis

AMD pledges to invest $10B+ in Taiwan's chip industry to make advanced chip packaging for AI, and says TSMC will ramp up production of its next-gen Venice chips  —  The company is investing more to meet growing demand for artificial-intelligence infrastructure

Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in Q1, nearly $1B more than Anthropic  —  OpenAI generated about $5.7 billion in revenue in the first quarter, nearly $1 billion more than archrival Anthropic generated in the same period, according to two people with knowledge of the financials.

Source: smart ring maker Oura filed confidentially for a US IPO, set for later in 2026; SF- and Finland-based Oura had an $11B valuation in September 2025  —  Smart Ring Maker Oura Files Confidentially for IPO  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 0.00% Playback Rate

Cohere releases Command A+, a sparse MoE open model built for agentic tasks, with 218B total and 25B active parameters, its first under the Apache 2.0 license  —  Canadian AI lab Cohere made waves recently by announcing a merger with German AI startup Aleph Alpha, but now it has even more in store …

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal  —  The new artificial intelligence enterprise services firm backed by Blackstone Inc., Anthropic PBC and Hellman & Friedman …

Ofcom says Meta, Snap, and Roblox have agreed to adopt stronger anti-grooming measures, while TikTok and YouTube “failed to commit to any significant changes”  —  - Snap, Meta and Roblox to adopt further safety measures to protect children from stranger danger online

Federal records: Grok was utilized in only 3 of 400+ publicly identified federal AI use cases in 2025, behind 234 for ChatGPT, 33 for Gemini, 26 for Claude  —  SpaceX's initial public offering is set to be the largest in history, partly fueled by its promise to grab a chunk of what it calls …