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Nike COO Venkatesh Alagirisamy told staff on 23 April 2026 that about 1,400 global operations roles, mostly in technology, would go as Nike reshapes its tech team, modernises Air manufacturing and moves some Converse footwear work.

Nestlé grew 3.5% organically in the first quarter, led by coffee, even though its infant formula recall cut about 0.9 points off growth; reported sales fell 5.7% to CHF 21.3 billion on the strong franc. It kept its 2026 guidance.

The Chicago Transit Authority started building the $5.7 billion, 5.5-mile extension of the Red Line south from 95th/Dan Ryan, with a ceremony at the site of the future Michigan Avenue station. Four new accessible stations near 103rd Street, 111th Street, Michigan Avenue and 130th Street will bring rapid transit to the Far South Side for the first time.

Related Digital secured financing for its $16 billion data center campus built for Oracle and OpenAI in Michigan: equity from Related and Blackstone funds, fixed-rate long-term debt anchored by PIMCO.

Oracle and BorderPlex replaced Project Jupiter's planned gas turbines and diesel generators with up to 2.45 GW of Bloom fuel cells, cutting NOx by about 92% at the Stargate campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court jailed Chen Li-ming for 10 years, three TSMC engineers for 2 to 6 years, and fined Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit NT$150 million - the first verdict under the National Security Act's core-technology clause.

Former Unilever chief growth and marketing officer Esi Eggleston Bracey joins Lululemon's board and will stand at the 2026 annual meeting in place of retiring director Shane Grant.

Figure said its BotQ plant had gone from building one Figure 03 a day to one an hour in under 120 days - a 24x ramp that delivered more than 350 of its third-generation humanoids, with end-of-line first-pass yield above 80% and over 9,000 actuators built.

Revenue jumped 22% with India's AWL now consolidated, but unrealised hedging losses from the Iran war and weaker associates cut net profit to US$265.6 million.

Chef Csilla Thackray opens a bright Austro-Hungarian restaurant on Butler Street, named for her great-grandfather and inspired by her Hungarian grandmother.

Hershey's first-quarter net sales rose 10.6% to $3.10 billion on about 10 points of price and the LesserEvil deal, and adjusted EPS rose 12% to $2.35 as reported profit nearly doubled; it reaffirmed its 2026 outlook.

The final structural beam went in at the top of the 660-foot guitar-shaped hotel tower, built on the former site of the Mirage's volcano and holding 675 of the resort's rooms. The $4 billion Hard Rock Las Vegas is a full rebuild of the Mirage, which closed on 17 July 2024, and is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2027.

The one-off special My Hero Academia More premieres, checking in on the grown former students of Class 1-A in Kohei Horikoshi’s superhero series after the main story’s end.

The Padres' owners agreed to hand control of the club to a group led by Clearlake Capital co-founder José E. Feliciano and his wife Kwanza Jones, at a reported record $3.9 billion.

IKEA shut its only Tennessee store after nearly a decade, taking 114 jobs with it. The company called the closure part of a strategic shift, decided on a review of "market share, business performance, cost structure, and overall optimization of physical assets"; Mid-South customers keep online ordering and FedEx pickup.