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  1. The high-profile trial between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is scheduled to begin Monday with jury selection.
  2. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
  3. The Amazon deal comes weeks after Meta made $48 billion in AI commitments with CoreWeave and Nebius.
  4. The tax is a 2% levy on the revenues of search engines, social media services and online marketplaces that derive value from U.K. users.
  5. VettaFi's Cinthia Murphy finds more exchange-traded funds are tackling the space theme more directly as excitement over the SpaceX IPO grows.
  6. Schwarz Group — a key backer of Aleph Alpha — plans to invest $600 million in Cohere's upcoming Series E round as part of the deal.
  7. TSMC, whose shares had a hit a record high on Thursday as well, last week reported a 58% increase in first-quarter profit.
  8. A lunar base will be operating on the moon by the end of the 2020s, according to Dylan Taylor, who said humans will be living there in the next decade.
  9. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released a preview version of its long awaited V4 large language model.
  10. Alibaba is rolling out its Qwen AI across multiple car brands, promising hands-free features like ordering meals and managing deliveries from the driver’s seat.