All entries

Bloomberg: SpaceX S-1: Valor Equity Partners founder Antonio Gracias, a longtime Elon Musk ally, controls a 7.3% stake in SpaceX, the second-largest holder after Musk — Antonio Gracias, the founder of

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 Univ

Samantha Subin / CNBC: 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% — Spotify shares j

Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) just announced a licensing deal that will allow users to prompt the creation of AI-generated remixes and covers for streaming songs. The tool will be a paid add

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Spotify Labs launches Studio, a NotebookLM-like desktop app to generate private, AI-powered podcasts, in research preview across 20+ markets — One of the common features for c

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 —

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: 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 — Alongside tools for

Studio by Spotify Labs is a new standalone AI app that generates a daily briefing, podcasts, and playlists on your PC using chatbot prompts. The AI-generated content draws from your Spotify listening

Shares of the financial services and human resources software company Workday Inc. rose more than 10% in late trading after it reported first-quarter earnings and revenue that came in higher than expe

Bloomberg: Taiwan is seeking to detain three people for forging documents to export Nvidia-powered Super Micro servers to China, Hong Kong, and Macau, breaking US rules — Taiwanese officials are seeki

Since its earliest days back in office, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech, harassment, propaganda, and disinformation online. Now, some

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the f

I'm not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would build one. One of the first to take the plunge is Polyend, a well-respected music gear maker with

Many of the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are choosing to build their future — and the world’s — on Google Cloud because of our complete and open AI stack. We embed AI into every layer of our ar

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

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

Adaptive driving beam (ADB) headlights use automatic headlight beam switching technology to shine less light on occupied areas of the road and more light on unoccupied areas. The U.S. has allowed auto

AI is turning digital trust from a security function into an operating model. That shift is putting new pressure on the systems enterprises have long used to verify identity, protect data and keep dig

Top Gun marks its 40th anniversary in May 2026, four decades after its debut on May 16, 1986, as a landmark blockbuster that defined the essential '80s action film. Powered by Tom Cruise's iconic perf

Databricks Genie is a conversational AI platform that enables businesses to build industry-specific solutions through natural language interactions with data. The solution allows partners to develop a

The International Space Station has an ongoing air leak in its Russian PrK module that has been known since 2019 , and this leak has delayed the launch of Axiom Space's private astronaut mission . NAS

The NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 is a rack-scale GPU supercomputer leveraging Blackwell architecture with NVLink switches for high-density computing , and topology-aware block scheduling in Slurm can align larg

The Trump administration awarded $2 billion in grants to nine quantum-computing companies through deals that include U.S. government equity stakes , marking a departure from traditional government fun

The U.S. Commerce Department will issue 2.013 billion in grants to IBM Corp., GlobalFoundries Inc. and seven other tech firms to finance quantum computing initiatives. The Wall Street Journal reported

Vega turns a full credential into a single proof, sharing only what is needed and nothing more, with performance that works in real apps. The post Vega: Zero-knowledge proofs for digital identity in t

Secure access service edge firm Versa Networks Inc. today introduced a zero-trust architecture for the Model Context Protocol that validates every action an artificial intelligence agent takes inside

Reuters: Waymo suspends freeway rides and pauses its Atlanta operations, as it updates software to improve performance around construction zones and flooded roadways — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Waymo said

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: 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

Google DeepMind has launched 'AI for the Planet,' a three-month accelerator program in Asia Pacific focused on leveraging advanced AI to combat environmental challenges like climate change, biodiversi

Enterprise management software company Workday Inc. is expanding beyond core human resources and finance with new artificial intelligence agents for information technology service management and trave

This Databricks blog post discusses strategies for implementing personalization in media products after their initial development, likely covering how to leverage data and AI technologies to deliver c

Zillow lost access to thousands of Chicago-area home listings when MRED (Midwest Real Estate Data) cut off its connection to the regional database, reducing available listings from nearly 5,000 to aro

Shares in Zoom Communications Inc. jumped more than 7% in late trading today after the video communications company comfortably beat first-quarter earnings and revenue expectations, lifted its full-ye

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: 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 — Zoom Communicati

Zscaler Inc. is acquiring Symmetry Systems Inc., a venture-backed startup that helps companies monitor their data assets. The companies announced the acquisition today without disclosing the financial

Google I/O 2026 unveiled new models, agents and tools to help users build, search, create, discover, shop and get more done. Key announcements included Gemini Omni, Google Antigravity, and Universal C

Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password LLC today expanded its collaboration with OpenAI Group PBC, releasing a Model Context Protocol server that lets the Codex coding agent pull creden

This article covers the NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint for building specialized deep research agents that empower AI systems to gather context, synthesize information, and support complex decision-making acros

In just a short time, we’ve seen AI transition from simple chat interfaces to autonomous agents capable of function calling, code execution, and persistent terminal use. But to orchestrate these capab

The innovation race has entered a new phase with enterprise agentic AI spreading across every part of the business. The potential of agents — once limited to technical teams — is quickly becoming acce

Google I/O 2026 featured several new AI model releases including Gemini 3.5 Flash, an Omni model codenamed NanoBanana for video processing, Spark for background agent tasks, and Antigravity 2.0. These

Jacob Passy / Wall Street Journal: Airbnb says it is adding luggage storage, airport pickups, car rentals, grocery delivery, and thousands of boutique and independent hotels to its platform — Platform

Nan Ransohoff / Nan's Substack: An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid — AI is

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff about plans for Tinder, including a redesign, AI features, live events, and group dating to win over Gen Z — The dating ap

An OpenAI AI model successfully disproved a longstanding conjecture in discrete geometry, a mathematical field studying geometric properties of discrete objects. This achievement demonstrates the pote

Today, Amazon SageMaker AI introduces OpenAI-compatible API support for real-time inference endpoints. If you use the OpenAI SDK, LangChain, or Strands Agents, you can now invoke models on SageMaker A