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April 20, 2026, 5:05 PM
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Apple:
John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board  —  Apple® announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president …
Erin Woo / The Information:
Sources: Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents  —  Google has assembled a strike team of researchers and engineers to improve its AI coding models, according to three people …
The GitHub Blog:
Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+  —  As shared in our recent blog post, we're making the following changes to Copilot plans for individuals as part of our ongoing efforts …
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Kimi AI:
Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License  —  We are open sourcing our latest model, Kimi K2.6, featuring state-of-the-art coding, long-horizon execution, and agent swarm capabilities.
David McCabe / New York Times:
Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products  —  The state claimed the e-commerce giant pressured brands like Levi's and Hanes to ask competing retailers to raise prices on certain products.
a16z:
A new media company called MTS launches for “monitoring the situation” across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others  —  Thrilled to announce our investment in a new media company called MTS (short for Monitoring the Situation).
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Adobe introduces CX Enterprise, an AI agent-based platform that aims to help corporate customers automate digital marketing and other functions  —  The software maker's new AI agents are aimed at getting ahead of the risk of artificial intelligence to its business
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Deezer says AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of daily uploads, totaling ~75K tracks per day and 2M+ per month, but account for just 1-3% of consumption  —  Deezer announced on Monday that AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform.
André Beganski / Decrypt:
RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated  —  RaveDAO's token cratered this weekend after blockchain sleuth ZachXBT called on exchanges to investigate trading tied to its surging token.
Danny Park / The Block:
LayerZero says North Korea's Lazarus is likely behind the $292M Kelp DAO exploit on April 18, which triggered $10B in outflows from Aave over bad debt concerns  —  Quick Take  — LayerZero said North Korean hacker group Lazarus is likely responsible for the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes  —  WhatsApp is testing a new subscription tier, similar to Instagram Plus and Snapchat+, that lets users pay for customized icons, themes, ringtones, and more.

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New York Times:
Fox News pulling Maria Bartiromo off the air reflects a growing willingness to break from Trump on certain issues, following its $787.5M Dominion settlement

CBS News:
A US federal judge allows the Pentagon to fire three Stars and Stripes journalists, ruling the government likely did not violate their First Amendment rights

Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
SCOTUS rules via an emergency order that political parties are entitled to the same low-cost TV ad rates as candidates, giving an advantage to Republicans

More News

Matt Haldane / Bloomberg:
Filing: Michael Saylor's Strategy bought $2.54B in bitcoin over the past seven days, its largest acquisition since November 2024; Strategy owns ~$61B in bitcoin
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Huawei launches the Pura X Max, a passport-style foldable with a 5.4-inch cover display and a 7.7-inch internal display, in China, starting at ~$1,613
Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
A Blue Origin rocket failed to correctly place a BlueBird satellite from satellite networking company AST into its intended orbit; ASTS falls 7%+
Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
Order: India's CCI sets May hearing on penalties after Apple failed to submit info on alleged app market abuse; Apple said it fears it could be fined up to $38B

Earlier Picks

The Korea Herald:
SK hynix says it has begun mass production of the 192GB SOCAMM2, a next-gen LPDDR5X low-power DRAM module designed particularly for Nvidia's Vera Rubin
The Information:
Sources: Polymarket is in talks to raise $400M at a ~$15B post-money valuation, up from $9B in October 2025, but below Kalshi's $22B valuation from March 2026
Amy Harder / Axios:
Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer leaves the company, as the data center developer faces issues in securing an anchor tenant and construction delays; FRMI drops 20%+
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