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Anthropic locked in a decade-long deal to buy 5 GW of AWS compute—bankrolled by a fresh $5 B Amazon investment and a conditional $20 B more—cementing the startup’s reliance on Amazon’s Trainium chips for future Claude models.
On 20 Apr 2026, Customs and Border Protection switched on its CAPE online tool, letting importers begin filing for refunds of Trump’s IEEPA duties that the Supreme Court struck down in February.
On 19 April 2026, Tesla said its previously Austin-only robotaxi pilot is now live—albeit in very small geofenced zones—in Dallas and Houston, showcasing driverless Model Y SUVs without in-car safety monitors just three days before its 22 April earnings call.
In mid-April 2026, spot gold pierced the $4,800-per-ounce mark—an all-time high just before India’s Akshaya Tritiya—sending Indian buyers toward recycled and digital gold, legislators in several U.S. states toward ‘transactional gold’ bills, and miners and ETFs rushing to capitalise on the price spike.
In mid-April 2026 Bitcoin clawed back to roughly $75,000, buoyed by nearly $1 billion of new BlackRock ETF inflows and a rebound in U.S. retail ownership to 12%, even as renewed U.S.–Iran conflict sparked $400 million in forced liquidations and prediction markets priced a slide to $60,000 as plausible.
On 18 April 2026 the Treasury abruptly re-authorised purchases of Russian oil already at sea until 16 May, reversing a public vow two days earlier not to extend the lapsed waiver.
On 20 May 2026, Meta will dismiss roughly 8,000 employees—about one-tenth of its workforce—in the first of at least two planned layoff waves meant to fund and accelerate the company’s huge artificial-intelligence pivot.
On 18–19 April 2026, OpenAI simultaneously lost three senior leaders and dismantled its Sora video and Science units, crystallising a shift toward enterprise-paying products as it readies a late-2026 IPO.
IEA chief Fatih Birol told AP on 16 Apr 2026 that European stocks of jet fuel will be exhausted in roughly six weeks unless the war-closed Strait of Hormuz reopens, foreshadowing imminent flight cancellations and wider economic pain.
On 16-17 April 2026 the International Energy Agency warned Europe has "maybe six weeks" of jet-fuel cover left, pushing the EU to draft emergency refinery-utilization rules and prompting carriers such as Lufthansa CityLine and KLM to scrap over 300 flights.
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