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Technology - Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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Technology headlines for Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Technology headlines for 2026-04-29 focused on 3 major developments: 1) On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets (TechCrunch) 2) How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They 'Are Gonna Want to Kill Me’ (Wired) 3) Grindr — yes, Grindr — won the WHCD party circuit (The Verge) 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 2026-04-29, 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
3 highlights-
On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets
Sources: #1 TechCrunch -
How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They 'Are Gonna Want to Kill Me’
Sources: #2 Wired -
Grindr — yes, Grindr — won the WHCD party circuit
Sources: #3 The Verge
Top 10 Stories
Ranked by daily score- #1 Score 80On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets
Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.
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#2 Score 79How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They 'Are Gonna Want to Kill Me’Tensions flared on the third day of trial in Musk v. Altman as OpenAI’s lawyers cross-examined Musk.
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#3 Score 74Grindr — yes, Grindr — won the WHCD party circuitHello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about technology, politics, and technology learning how to politick. If you're not a subscriber but would like to support our work, please subscribe here. I promise that your money will not go toward paying for a drone-proof ballroom for The Verge staff, no matter how […]
- #4 Score 73Meta is still burning money on AR/VR
Meta is losing billions on Reality Labs each quarter, and its AI expenditures are only going to increase its spending.
- #5 Score 66Satya Nadella says he’s ready to ‘exploit’ the new OpenAI deal
Microsoft gets to offer OpenAI's tech to its cloud customers and doesn't have to pay for it. "We fully plan to exploit it," Nadella said.
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#6 Score 66ABC can beat Trump FCC's license threat if owner Disney is willing to fightOpen source article for the full coverage.
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#7 Score 65Splatoon Raiders preorders for the Switch 2 are nearly 20 percent offNintendo recently announced a new pricing policy, which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2. Splatoon Raiders, for instance, is available for preorder ahead of its July 23rd release for $49.99 digitally or $59.99 for the physical edition. However, Amazon and Walmart are the exception in […]
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#8 Score 64Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.
- #9 Score 61Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it
Despite the lingering perception that no one really uses Copilot, Microsoft said on Wednesday that the number of users and engagement is growing.
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#10 Score 59OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to "never talk about goblins"Open source article for the full coverage.