TNB Tech Minute: Tim Cook to Step Down as Apple Names New CEO
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall. |
| 0:05.0 | It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. |
| 0:11.3 | That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI. |
| 0:17.5 | Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries. |
| 0:24.7 | Here's your morning, TNB Tech Minute, for Tuesday, April 21st. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:31.2 | Tim Cook is stepping down from his longtime role as CEO of Apple. He'll be succeeded by the head of the |
| 0:36.5 | iPhone maker's hardware division, John Turnus. He'll take succeeded by the head of the iPhone Maker's hardware division, |
| 0:38.2 | John Turnus. He'll take charge on September 1st, when Cook will become the company's executive chairman. |
| 0:44.5 | During Cook's tenure, Apple became one of the world's most valuable companies, |
| 0:47.9 | with its market value growing by nearly $3.7 trillion to about $4 trillion. |
| 0:53.2 | Turnus is taking the lead at a time when the company is working to rekindle its creative fire and chart a hardware-heavy future in the AI era. We exclusively report that OpenAI is working with a slew of consulting firms to sell its AI coding tool to businesses. |
| 1:07.7 | Accenture, Cap Gemini, and Pricewaterhouse Coopers are some of the firms working with the |
| 1:11.7 | chat GPT maker as it pushes its Codex tool to compete with its rival, Anthropic. |
| 1:16.9 | OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser told the journal that its Codex consulting partners |
| 1:21.5 | will help the company expand its reach to more potential enterprise customers than it could alone. |
| 1:26.9 | OpenAI declined to specify the financial terms behind its latest partnership program. |
| 1:32.3 | And Amazon is deepening its relationship with Anthropic with a new $5 billion investment and computing deal. |
| 1:38.9 | Amazon says its total investment in the AI startup could reach $25 billion if the partnership hits certain milestones. |
| 1:45.6 | As part of the deal, Anthropic agreed to purchase more than $100 billion of Amazon's cloud |
| 1:50.1 | services and make use of Amazon's AI chips. The move comes as chief executive Dario Amadeh says |
| 1:56.1 | the company must build infrastructure to keep pace with rapidly growing demand. |
| 2:00.5 | And that's your TNB Tech Minute. |
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