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On 6 January 2026 AB InBev said it was exercising its right to reacquire the 49.9% stake in its US metal container plants from an Apollo-led consortium for about US$3 billion; it completed the purchase on 30 January for about US$2.9 billion.

On 6 April 2026 the four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II passed the 248,655-mile mark set by Apollo 13 in 1970, then peaked at about 252,756 miles (406,771 km) from Earth on their loop around the Moon. It is the greatest distance any crewed spacecraft has travelled.

A financing platform for more than 20 GW of Broadcom XPU compute for frontier AI labs through 2028, opening with a $35 billion tranche led by Apollo with Blackstone to fund Anthropic's 1 GW-plus expansion at Fluidstack sites.

Bloomberg reported that Apollo Global Management is in talks to buy DePuy Synthes, J&J's $9.3 billion-a-year orthopaedics unit, at a value close to $20 billion, with a deal possible within weeks though J&J could still spin the unit off instead.

Johnson & Johnson's orthopaedics business is due to leave the group as DePuy Synthes - by tax-free spinoff or by sale, with Apollo in talks at about $20 billion - and J&J says it is on track for a mid-2027 separation.