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Another DeepSeek Moment On The Horizon?

Tech Brew Ride Home

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4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Microsoft considered buying Cursor but didn't pull the trigger before SpaceX's deal. Microsoft launches its first-ever voluntary retirement program, Anthropic's secondary market valuation hits $1T on Forge Global, and SpaceX's S-1 reveals plans to manufacture its own GPUs. Sources: Microsoft considered buying Cursor in recent weeks but didn't make an offer; Microsoft has been working to boost GitHub Copilot's popularity (CNBC) Microsoft announces the first voluntary retirement program in its 50-year history, for US staffers whose combined years of service added to their age totals 70+ (The Verge) Kalshi suspends and fines congressional candidates Mark Moran of Virginia, Matt Klein of Minnesota, and Ezekiel Enriquez of Texas for political insider trading (CNBC) Anthropic's valuation has hit $1T on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, surpassing OpenAI's valuation on the platform of $880B (Business Insider) 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) SpaceX's S-1 excerpts list "manufacturing our own GPUs" among the "substantial capital expenditures" it is undertaking, with the size of the expenditure TBD (Reuters) Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a first-ever list of its 20 most streamed artists, albums, songs, podcasts, and audiobooks (Billboard) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the TechBrewrite Home for Thursday, April 23rd, 26. I'm Brian McCullough today. Microsoft

0:09.5

considered buying cursor but didn't pull the trigger before SpaceX's deal. Microsoft launches its

0:15.0

first ever voluntary retirement program, Anthropics' secondary market valuation hits $1 trillion on Forge Global, and SpaceX's

0:22.7

S-1 reveals plans to manufacture its own GPUs.

0:26.2

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:33.4

Today's episode is brought to you by Dopple.

0:36.1

Disguises are getting pretty good these days,

0:37.8

and I'm not just talking about when you throw on a pair of glasses and a hoodie and hope you won't be recognized.

0:43.1

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0:47.7

blending in as your everyday internal email, casual text message, or normal website.

0:53.0

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0:57.3

to protect themselves from increasingly sophisticated social engineering threats.

1:01.9

Their digital risk protection takes it one step further by keeping an eye on every channel

1:06.2

to connect patterns and shut them down fast.

1:09.3

From deepfakes to bad links to impersonation attempts,

1:12.3

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1:17.5

Learn more at D-O-P-P-E-L.com.

1:20.6

That's D-O-P-P-E-L.com.

1:25.9

A few follow-ups to that whole SpaceX kind of sort of acquiring cursor story.

1:31.8

First, sources say SpaceX isn't acquiring cursor immediately because the deal could delay its

1:38.1

forthcoming IPO.

1:39.7

Quoting Bloomberg, a major transaction would require SpaceX to update its filings and

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