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Microsoft offers buyout for up to 7% of U.S. employees
If a worker's years of service at Microsoft plus their age equals 70 or more, they will be eligible for a voluntary retirement buyout.
Meta is revamping its cross-app management system
Meta's Accounts Center will transition to the Meta Account, which is supposed to make it easier to manage your experience on various Meta apps and devices.
Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets
Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants
X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam
X Communities are no more. Only a fraction of X users were using Communities, and much of that use was spam, the company said.
The Pentagon just picked the companies that will put nuclear reactors on Air Force bases
Summary: The Pentagon has narrowed its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) programme from eight companies to three, advancing microreactor deployment at Buckley Space Force Base (Colorado) and Malmstrom Air Force Base (Montana) by 2030. The original eight vendors included BWXT, Oklo, X-energy, Kairos Power, Radiant, General Atomics, Westinghouse, and Antares. The commercially owned reactor […]This story continues at The Next Web
Salmon raises $100M in equity and debt to bring digital credit to underbanked Filipinos
Salmon is targeting underbanked Filipinos, with little to no credit history, as well as people unhappy with the incumbent lenders' reliability issues.
Vercel says some of its customers’ data was stolen prior to its recent hack
The app and website hosting company has found evidence of a second compromise of customer accounts after expanding its initial investigation following a breach in early April.
Grab a ticket today: The first StrictlyVC of 2026 kicks off in just a week in San Francisco
StrictlyVC San Francisco is in just a week. Now’s the time to grab yourself a ticket. Join VCs and founders at Sentro Filipino Cultural Center on April 30.
Another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident
TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve was the compliance company that performed the security certifications for Context AI, the AI agent training startup that last week disclosed a security incident.
Labor unrest at Samsung may worsen memory chip supply issues
Tens of thousands of Samsung Electronics workers held a rally at the company’s Pyeongtaek campus in South Korea on Thursday to signal they are prepared to walk off the job for an 18-day strike next month.
OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws
The new model reasons about composition, searches the web for context, generates up to eight coherent images from one prompt, and renders text in non-Latin scripts with near-flawless accuracy. It also took the number one spot on the Image Arena leaderboard within 12 hours of launch, by the largest margin ever recorded. Two years ago, […]This story continues at The Next Web
Anthropic reportedly hits $1 trillion implied valuation on secondary markets
Secondary share trading platforms are pricing Anthropic at approximately $1 trillion, just three months after its primary fundraising round valued it at $380 billion. OpenAI is trading at $880 billion on the same platforms, a meaningful reversal of the previous order. The valuations are not primary rounds and carry no guarantee of liquidity. Anthropic, the […]This story continues at The Next Web
Netflix authorises $25 billion share buyback after stock falls 10% on Q1 earnings
The $25B programme has no expiration date and sits on top of a December 2024 authorisation that still had $6.8B remaining. Netflix’s board approved it on 22 April. Shares rose 1.5% in premarket trading on the news, after falling as much as 10.8% following the Q1 report on 16 April. Netflix’s board authorised an additional […]This story continues at The Next Web
Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund lost NOK636 billion ($68 billion) in investment returns in the first quarter, driven by the equity slide among large US technology companies. The S&P 500 posted its deepest quarterly decline since 2022. The fund marginally outperformed its benchmark. Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway’s Government Pension Fund […]This story continues at The Next Web
Belfast’s Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure the AI-generated software supply chain
TCV led the Series B one year ago and now doubles down on the Series C. Insight Partners also returns. The thesis: AI coding agents are generating software so fast and at such volume that human code review is no longer sufficient, and enterprise artifact management must function as the primary control and security layer. […]This story continues at The Next Web
BT, Nscale, and Nvidia announce UK sovereign AI partnership
Nscale will construct the data centres at existing BT infrastructure sites; BT will provide connectivity. Both companies are founding members of the new UK Sovereign AI Industry Forum. The deal deepens Nscale’s position as a central plank of the UK government’s national AI infrastructure strategy. BT Group and Nscale announced on 23 April 2026 that […]This story continues at The Next Web
Tesla raises 2026 capex to $25 billion
The company will go negative on free cash flow for the rest of 2026, CFO Vaibhav Taneja confirmed. But Q1 delivered an unexpected $1.4 billion positive free cash flow beat, and Tesla ended the quarter with $44.7 billion in cash. The capex uplift from $20B to $25B is a $5 billion revision to guidance issued […]This story continues at The Next Web
Elon Musk makes massive call over robot future
Tesla’s shift from electric cars to high-tech robots is set to go into overdrive, with Elon Musk telling investors the ...
Elon Musk says he’ll use Intel’s 14A chip technology for his ‘Terafab’
Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday he plans to use Intel’s forthcoming 14A manufacturing technology to make chips in his ...