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April 23, 2026, 10:05 AM
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CNBC:
Sources: Microsoft considered buying Cursor in recent weeks but didn't make an offer; Microsoft has been working to boost GitHub Copilot's popularity  —  Prior to SpaceX's announcement this week that it's obtained the right to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, Microsoft looked at a potential deal …
Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: xAI held talks in recent weeks with Mistral and Cursor about a potential three-way partnership; Mistral co-founder Devendra Chaplot joined xAI in March
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Apple fixes a bug that stored notifications for deleted messages on iPhone and iPad, following a report that police used it to extract deleted Signal messages  —  Apple released a software update on Wednesday for iPhones and iPads fixing a bug that allowed law enforcement to extract messages …
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register:
GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default  —  Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement  —  Users of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware.
More: GitHub CLI and GitHub
LinkedIn: Kat Cosgrove.  Bluesky: @hugovk.dev.  Mastodon: @hugovk@mastodon.social.  Forums: Hacker News and r/linux
Gil Kaufman / Billboard:
Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a first-ever list of its 20 most streamed artists, albums, songs, podcasts, and audiobooks  —  But who else made the cut? … It was 20 years ago today that Spotify began to play.  And to mark the streaming service's big anniversary …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Kalshi suspends and fines congressional candidates Mark Moran of Virginia, Matt Klein of Minnesota, and Ezekiel Enriquez of Texas for political insider trading  —  Prediction market platform Kalshi said Wednesday it had suspended and fined three candidates for Congress from Minnesota …
Financial Times:
A poll of 4,000 workers in the US and the UK finds that the highest-earning and most experienced workers are adopting AI in their jobs far faster than others  —  FT-Focaldata poll offers early evidence on how the technology is reshaping work and reinforcing gender and pay gaps
More: Financial Times.  X: @wi_john.  LinkedIn: Jeff de Kleijn.  Bluesky: @siobhandowling.  Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Sumit Chauhan / Microsoft 365 Blog:
Microsoft says Copilot's agentic features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now generally available and enabled by default for 365 Copilot and 365 Premium  —  Try Microsoft 365 Copilot  —  Available on desktop and mobile devices  —  Today, I am excited to share that agentic capabilities in Word …
Reuters:
Elon Musk says Tesla plans to use Intel's 14A process technology to make chips at its Terafab project, which would make Tesla the first major customer for 14A  —  Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the EV maker plans to use Intel's (INTC.O) next-generation 14A manufacturing process …
Ainslie Chandler / Bloomberg:
Microsoft plans to invest AU$25B by 2029 to expand Azure AI supercomputing and cloud infrastructure in Australia, its largest commitment to the country  —  Microsoft Corp. announced its biggest-ever investment in Australia, pledging to spend A$25 billion ($17.9 billion) …
Qwen:
Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-27B, an open-weight dense model with 27B parameters, saying it surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on major coding benchmarks  —  · 4226 words  · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文  —  HUGGING FACE  —  MODELSCOPE  —  DISCORD
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios:
Cloudsmith, which is building a cloud-native system to manage software artifacts, raised a $72M Series C, following a $23M Series B in 2025  —  Cloudsmith, a platform that protects software components, raised a $72 million Series C, CEO Glenn Weinstein tells Axios exclusively.
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Lyft agrees to buy London black cab app Gett, its third acquisition in the past year, as the company expands its presence beyond the US  —  Lyft Inc. has agreed to buy London black cab app Gett, its third acquisition in the past year, as the company works to expand its presence beyond the US.
More: CTech and Financial Post
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including metered paywalls, letting creators host webinars for up to 10,000 people, AI analytics, and more  —  It's been clear for a while that Beehiiv wants to be more than just a newsletter platform.  The L.A.-based company announced a slew of updates …
Chris Metinko / Axios:
Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised $60M, including a $40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~$90M  —  Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised $60 million, CEO Jeu George tells Axios Pro exclusively.

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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico amend their lawsuit against the White House, alleging it has kept all three off press pool duty since Sept. 18 despite an injunction

Reuters:
Sources: Bloomberg, Susquehanna, and Jump Trading signed up for Truth Social's real-time feed of top accounts, including Trump's posts, paying $60K to $100K

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Versant, owner of MS NOW and CNBC, is launching four new FAST channels, including Snapped, Botched, and CNBC Ambition, bringing its portfolio to 13 outlets

More News

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Filing: Netflix plans a $25B share buyback, adding to a Dec. 2024 program that still has $6.8B for purchases; NFLX is down 13% since its Q1 earnings on April 16
Nikita Bier / @nikitabier:
X says it is deprecating X Communities, giving members until May 30 to migrate to XChat, and plans to increase group chat limits to 1,000 in the next two weeks
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Report: China's 360 Digital Security Group has uncovered ~1,000 previously unknown vulnerabilities, including in Microsoft's Office, using an AI-powered agent

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
US child safety group NCMEC received 1.5M reports of suspected CSAM with ties to AI in 2025, a significant surge compared to 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023
More: Digital Trends.  LinkedIn: Kurt Wagner.  Threads: @kurtwag8, @kurtwag8, @kurtwag8, and @kurtwag8
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
SK Hynix reports Q1 revenue up 198% YoY to ~$35.55B, vs. ~$36.2B est., and operating profit up 405% YoY to ~$25.4B, vs. ~$25.6B est., as memory prices rise
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