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Spotify closes up 13% after announcing new features and 2030 guidance, forecasting a compound annual growth rate in the mid-teens and gross margins of 35%-40% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Spotify closes up 13% after announcing new feature...

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Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 5.5% YoY to $1.24B, vs. $1.22B est., AI Companion paid users up 184%, forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est.; ZM jumps 8%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 5.5% YoY to $1.24B, vs....

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Take-Two reports Q4 bookings flat YoY at $1.58B, forecasts FY 2027 bookings below est., reiterates GTA VI's November 19 launch date; TTWO jumps 6%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

Take-Two reports Q4 bookings flat YoY at $1.58B, f...

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Workday reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.54B vs. $2.52B est., and lifts its full-year forecast, saying its AI strategy is working; WDAY jumps 9%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Workday reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.54B vs...

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Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Meta, accusing WhatsApp of marketing its services as secure but failing to "deliver on those promises" by accessing encrypted messages (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Meta, accusing WhatsApp o...

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Meta joins TikTok, Snap, and YouTube in settling with a Kentucky school district to avoid a trial over claims the platforms were designed to addict kids (Erin Mulvaney/Wall Street Journal)

Meta joins TikTok, Snap, and YouTube in settling w...

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Sources: Starbucks shut down an AI program for automating inventory counts, nine months after deploying it, after it frequently miscounted and mislabeled items (Waylon Cunningham/Reuters)

Sources: Starbucks shut down an AI program for aut...

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Modal Labs, which offers a serverless cloud platform to build AI apps and run AI inference, raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, up from $1.1B in 2025 (Deepa Seetharaman/Reuters)

Modal Labs, which offers a serverless cloud platfo...

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Gavin Newsom signs an EO mandating state agencies work with the AI industry and others to study subsidies for companies that don't replace workers with AI (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

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Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in Q1, nearly $1B more than Anthropic (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue i...

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Sources: the EU will propose temporarily lifting sanctions, imposed in April, on a major Chinese semiconductor supplier after automakers warned of shortages (Alberto Nardelli/Bloomberg)

Sources: the EU will propose temporarily lifting s...

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August Robotics, which makes autonomous robots for construction and industrial applications, raised $30M led by Big Pi Ventures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

August Robotics, which makes autonomous robots for...

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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 (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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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 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Source: smart ring maker Oura filed confidentially...

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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 (Jem Aswad/Variety)

Spotify and UMG plan to let Premium users create A...

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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 (Robert Booth/The Guardian)

London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocks the Met police's £5...

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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 (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)

Spotify partners with Live Nation to launch Reserv...

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Spotify says it has 1M+ subscriptions to Audiobook+, which is on track for $100M in ARR, and unveils an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook self-publishing tool (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Spotify says it has 1M+ subscriptions to Audiobook...

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