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Apple disclosed on 20 April 2026 that Tim Cook will relinquish the CEO post after 15 years and, effective 1 September 2026, pass the reins to longtime hardware boss John Ternus while remaining executive chairman.
On 24 Apr 2026 Alphabet injected $10 B into Anthropic at a $350 B valuation and signed a conditional package for a further $30 B plus 5 gigawatts of Google-built TPU compute, lifting its total exposure to the rival AI lab to roughly $43 B.
On 24 Apr 2026 U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment alleging Special Forces Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke used classified details of “Operation Absolute Resolve” to wager ~$33 k on Polymarket in late Dec 2025–early Jan 2026, turning it into $409,881 after Maduro was seized on 3 Jan 2026.
On 23 Apr 2026, roughly 40,000 Samsung Electronics employees rallied at the Pyeongtaek semiconductor complex, warning they will shut production for 18 days from 21 May unless management scraps a 50 % bonus cap and grants 15 % of operating profit as payouts.
On 23 Apr 2026 Meta told staff it will axe ~8,000 jobs on 20 May and scrap hiring for another 6,000 vacancies, redirecting the savings toward a record AI budget.
Intel forecast US$13.8–14.8 billion in June-quarter sales—roughly US$1 billion above consensus—signalling resurgent demand for its Xeon CPUs powering inference and “agentic” AI, and igniting a 15–20 % after-hours share spike.
Rosneft Germany told Berlin it has been instructed by Moscow to stop shipping Kazakh crude through the Druzhba pipeline from 1 May 2026, removing roughly one-quarter of the PCK Schwedt refinery’s feedstock.
Facing jet-fuel prices that have nearly doubled since the Iran war began, Lufthansa Group will cut 20,000 European short-haul flights (about 1 % of capacity) between now and October 2026.
Tesla unexpectedly swung to a $1.44 billion free-cash surplus in Q1 2026 and posted 41¢ EPS vs 34¢ expected, even as vehicle deliveries missed forecasts by 2%.
On 20 Apr 2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection activated its new CAPE online system, letting importers file for repayment of Trump-era tariffs the Court ruled unconstitutional in February.
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