DTNS April 2026 in Review
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of April.
Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my gosh, another month is gone. This is the Daily Tech News Month in Review for April |
| 0:13.2 | 26. We're going to look back on what the big stories of the month were and try to help each |
| 0:18.3 | other understand them. This month, we've got a new CEO coming to Apple, big tech companies raise revenue and spending, |
| 0:26.6 | and Anthropics too hot for the public bug finder breached with a URL half. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Tom Barrett. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Jen Cutter. |
| 0:33.6 | Let's take a look back on some of the biggest stories of April 26. |
| 0:40.4 | Now, first, we do like to ask an LLM what it thinks the big stories of the month are. |
| 0:45.7 | It's very interesting to see. |
| 0:47.4 | This month, I gave this prompt to Claude, because Claude's in the news, so I thought it was appropriate to use Claude. |
| 0:54.2 | I said, I'm doing an episode of Daily Tech News show, wrapping up the big tech stories of April. |
| 0:58.5 | What should I pick? |
| 1:00.7 | And it said, Tim Cook steps down at Apple. |
| 1:03.1 | Well, we agree. |
| 1:03.9 | We're definitely going to talk about that. |
| 1:06.0 | Amazon doubles down an Anthropic. |
| 1:07.9 | I have noticed that sometimes these models do tend to pick stories about |
| 1:11.0 | themselves. Amazon's $5 billion investment in Anthropics certainly was a story in this month. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm not sure it's the second biggest story of the month. GPT 5.5 launches. That didn't make our cut, |
| 1:23.8 | Jen, but I can see, you know, in the world of LLMs, that those, that was a big |
| 1:28.6 | milestone one. |
| 1:31.0 | Spending on AI infrastructure is certainly part of the story we're going to talk about with |
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