Morning Brief — 2026-05-03

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🇺🇸 US News

Spirit Airlines' collapse is rippling through travel as rivals cap fares and help stranded passengers and crew rebook.
A U.S. appeals court blocked mail-order access to mifepristone for now, sharply narrowing abortion-pill availability.
ActBlue sued Texas AG Ken Paxton, calling his investigation a retaliatory political campaign.
Alabama and other GOP-led states are pushing new congressional maps after a Supreme Court redistricting ruling.

Marco Rubio will reportedly visit the Vatican and Italy this week after Trump's attacks on Pope Leo stirred Christian criticism.
North Korea rejected U.S. cyber-threat accusations as disinformation and warned of countermeasures.
Israel's military warned residents in 11 southern Lebanon towns to evacuate amid operations.
Russia claimed control of Myropillia in Ukraine's Sumy region, but Kyiv denied the village had fallen.

The Pentagon inked deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS and others to deploy AI on classified networks.
Meta bought a robotics startup to accelerate humanoid AI ambitions.
OpenAI added advanced ChatGPT security features, including a Yubico partnership for high-risk users.
The Academy ruled AI-generated actors and scripts ineligible for Oscars acting and writing awards.
Anthropic's possible $900B valuation round could arrive within two weeks, according to TechCrunch.

Nvidia remains the AI bellwether as Reuters' quote page tracks Pentagon AI deals, B300 server demand and broader chip news around the stock.
Microsoft is tied into the Pentagon AI rollout while its quote page reflects investor focus on cloud and Copilot demand.
Alphabet's cloud growth has reset AI-infrastructure expectations, with GOOGL watched as a key AI platform stock.
QQQ held as the broad AI-tech proxy while Nasdaq strength continued to lead the tape.

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