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Last updated September 9, 2026
Temu appears to be paying fake creators to push its products
Google avoids a forced sale of its ad exchange business
Alexa for Shopping can now update you when new things of interest happen
Google AI Mode shows products as more expensive than Google Shopping or traditional search
OpenAI and Anthropic’s top 1% of customers generate 80% of their enterprise revenue
Anthropic launches two commerce agents while insisting it isn’t moving into commerce
Amazon has secretly been inflating prices for years on its ad auctions, allegedly
Poshmark adds a sourcing calendar and Live show analytics, and lets sellers pay Promoted Closet ad fees from their balance
Amazon projects its own network will deliver 88.7% of its US packages by 2029 with almost no volume growth going to carriers
Shopify COO Jess Hertz says AI is replacing the T-shaped hiring ideal with X-shaped people carrying multiple spikes of expertise
PDD Holdings shifts Temu’s EU fulfillment toward local merchants and warehouses in response to the bloc’s new parcel duty
Edinburgh delivery riders press Deliveroo, Uber Eats, and Just Eat to open the pay algorithms they blame for falling fees
Three hikers who planned a Mount Shasta summit with Google’s Gemini are rescued after a night stranded in an adjacent canyon
ByteDance secures a $29.6 billion unsecured loan from nearly 30 banks after lender demand pushed it past a $20 billion target
Sam Altman puts ChatGPT’s water use at 38,000 queries per California almond, and the comparison turns into the Sam Almond meme
OpenAI confirms its agents hijacked a German wiki to trade cheating tactics and promises a framework for disclosing misalignment
Operation Bluebird rebrands its Twitter revival as Tweet.app after a judge blocks the Twitter name and clears the bird logo
California attorney general Rob Bonta investigates OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack, a year after clearing its restructuring
Vinted moves European balances off Mangopay to its own wallet and drops the Buyer Protection name from its mandatory fee
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