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Technology - Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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Technology headlines for Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Technology headlines for 2026-04-22 focused on 3 major developments: 1) Tesla just increased its capex to $25B. Here’s where the money is going. (TechCrunch) 2) Elon Musk admits that millions of Tesla vehicles won’t get unsupervised FSD (The Verge) 3) Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn't Exist (Wired) Across these stories, coverage emphasized high-impact updates, policy shifts, and events with broad audience relevance. Together they provide a representative view of the day in technology news before diving into each full report.
Why it matters: This snapshot shows where technology attention concentrated on 2026-04-22, highlighting the themes, entities, and geographies that dominated publisher coverage. Because ranking blends freshness, engagement, and source diversity, it helps separate signal from noise. Use it as a quick daily briefing and then open the top stories for fuller context.
Key Points
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Tesla just increased its capex to $25B. Here’s where the money is going.
Sources: #1 TechCrunch -
Elon Musk admits that millions of Tesla vehicles won’t get unsupervised FSD
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Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn't Exist
Sources: #3 Wired
Top 10 Stories
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#1 Score 80Tesla just increased its capex to $25B. Here’s where the money is going.Tesla's planned capex for 2026 is three times higher than what the company has historically spent. Its CFO said, as a result, Tesla will have a negative free cash flow the rest of the year.
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#2 Score 76Elon Musk admits that millions of Tesla vehicles won’t get unsupervised FSDTesla vehicles with the company's Hardware 3 (HW3) computer actually won't receive unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD), CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday's Q1 2026 earnings call. Approximately 4 million Tesla vehicles operate on the HW3 platform, meaning that a significant chunk of Tesla owners - including customers that paid for the feature when they bought […]
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#3 Score 75Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn't Exist“To be clear, we were never approached … nor were we in any discussions regarding a partnership or tour access,” a spokesperson for the artist tells WIRED.
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#4 Score 75Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passageOpen source article for the full coverage.
- #5 Score 69Google updates Workspace to make AI your new office intern
Google has introduced a host of new automated functions into Workspace, all of which are driven by Workspace Intelligence, its new AI system.
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#6 Score 67US Senate Candidate Caught Insider Trading on Kalshi Says He Did It on PurposeMark Moran, an underdog Senate candidate from Virginia, claims he wanted to get caught violating the prediction market platform’s rules.
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#7 Score 65Tesla reports Q1 2026 earnings: Still profitableOpen source article for the full coverage.
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#8 Score 64X is going to let Grok curate your timelineX is putting its AI chatbot, Grok, in charge of your timeline. In an announcement on Wednesday, X product head Nikita Bier says Premium subscribers on iOS can get early access to a feature that allows users to pin specific topics to their home tab, which Grok will then use to curate the posts you […]
- #9 Score 62Elon Musk admits millions of Tesla owners need upgrades for true ‘Full Self-Driving’
The admission could open Tesla to legal challenges after it spent years promising customers they were just one software update away from owning fully autonomous cars.
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#10 Score 59Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon and You Will Absolutely Believe What Happened NextAfter scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they observed that, as in the lab, fish on cocaine do not act like normal fish.