Pins matching date:2026-04-29

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.

Projected No. 1 pick AJ Dybantsa told ESPN on 29 April 2026 that he is extending the Nike deal he signed in January 2024 into a professional endorsement contract, with a signature logo; terms were not disclosed.

A limited-edition vodka seltzer with grape, lime and ginger. Released nationwide on April 29 in finite market allocations; availability is while supplies last.

IBM releases Granite 4.1, dense 3B, 8B and 30B language models under Apache 2.0 whose 8B instruct matches or beats the 32B-parameter Granite 4.0 mixture-of-experts model, alongside new vision, speech, guardian and embedding models.

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.

Qualcomm's $10.6 billion quarter and weak guidance first knocked the shares down 7% after hours, then Cristiano Amon said data-center chips would ship to a large hyperscaler this year and the stock jumped 16%.

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 received Royal Assent on 29 April 2026, and its section 241 took effect at once: no woman commits an offence under abortion law by acting in relation to her own pregnancy.

General Dynamics reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of US$13.5 billion, up 10.3%, EPS of US$4.10, up 12%, and US$26.6 billion of orders for a 2-to-1 book-to-bill, lifting backlog to US$130.8 billion.

Mistral AI releases Mistral Medium 3.5, its first merged flagship: a 128B dense open-weight model with a 256K context window that scores 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified and costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens.

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi reopened to guests from 29 April 2026 after a comprehensive renovation of its 57 rooms and suites and public spaces by André Fu Studio.

The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 percent on 29 April 2026, its most divided vote of the year: Stephen Miran wanted a cut, and three presidents objected to the statement's easing bias.