Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Apple has named hardware engineering chief John Ternus as its next CEO, ending Tim Cook's 14-year run at the top of the world's most valuable company. Cook will stay on as executive chairman, a structure that keeps him close without keeping him in charge. Ternus takes the reins on September 1.
Trump has declared the US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will remain until Iran signs a deal, while Tehran has refused to attend fresh negotiations in Pakistan, saying it won't talk under military threat. The standoff is already driving fuel theft surges in Britain and pushing energy anxiety across dependent economies.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer has left the Trump cabinet while under an internal investigation into misconduct allegations, departing to take a private sector job. She is the third cabinet official to exit Trump's second term in under two months, a pace of attrition that is starting to look like a pattern.
Amazon has committed a further $5 billion to Anthropic in a deal that comes with a striking condition: Anthropic will spend $100 billion on AWS cloud infrastructure in return. The circular arrangement cements AWS as the backbone of one of the leading AI labs and deepens a partnership that is reshaping the competitive landscape between cloud giants.
Renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels worldwide for the first time in 2025, with clean energy absorbing the entire growth in global power demand. The UK government is now moving to lock in those gains domestically, shifting older wind and solar farms onto fixed-price contracts to shield households from future gas price shocks — a move covering almost a third of Great Britain's power market.
