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Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
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 …
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Spotify and UMG plan to let Premium users create AI covers and remixes using music from participating UMG artists as a paid add-on, without giving a launch date  —  Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced a major recorded-music and music-publishing licensing agreements …
Bloomberg:
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 …
Ina Fried / Axios:
SpaceX S-1: Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B per month through May 2029 under their compute deal; Anthropic says it is expanding the deal to include Colossus 2
New York Times:
Filing: SpaceX reports 2025 revenue up 33% YoY to $18.7B, a loss of $4.9B, down from a $791M profit in 2024, and $20.7B in capital expenditures, up from $11.2B
Ashley Gold / Axios:
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.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
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 …
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware:
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.
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
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.
Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Bloomberg:
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 …
Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt:
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
CNBC:
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 …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
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.
Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal:
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
Robert Booth / The Guardian:
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
Ofcom:
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
Nvidia Newsroom:
Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $81.62B, above $78.86B est., Data Center revenue up 92% YoY to $75.2B, and announces an $80B share repurchase program  —  - Record revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% from a year ago  — Record Data Center revenue of $75.2 billion, up 92% from a year ago

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Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
Hasbro launches Sixth Wall, an AI studio working with ElevenLabs and voice actors to create and license AI-native versions of its characters and franchises

Tyler Falk / Current:
NPR is overhauling its dues model so that fees are based on news stations' broadcast reach rather than donor revenues and projects dues will fall 15% to 18%

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Lee Ying Shan / CNBC:
Jensen Huang says that Nvidia has “largely conceded” China's AI chip market to Huawei and should “expect nothing” regarding approvals to sell chips in China
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Investor disclosures: Anthropic says it expects to generate $10.9B in revenue in Q2, up 127% from $4.8B in Q1, and turn a $559M operating profit, its first ever
OpenAI:
OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946
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