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Last updated July 12, 2026
Depop sees its federal ‘junk fee’ class action dismissed as a California case continues, with its $1.2B eBay sale pending
Amazon’s laid-off workers face a saturated, AI-reshaped tech job market after the company’s steepest workforce cuts ever
OpenAI is hiring a product manager focused on families and older adults as ChatGPT’s audience shifts toward parents and over-35s
Meta pulls its Muse Image AI feature days after launch after backlash over auto opt-in and use of public Instagram photos
Cloudflare and OpenAI launch a pilot using Cloudflare’s network signals to make AI search indexing more accurate and timely
Susquehanna, an early ByteDance backer, winds down its China venture team as U.S.-China tensions squeeze foreign investors
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 Sol, its most powerful model yet, after U.S. restrictions over cybersecurity delayed the launch
Meta adds performance metrics for its AI Business Agents, tracking conversations, purchase intent, and containment rate
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says rising AI costs are pushing companies toward cheaper open-source models over frontier labs
Google details Qualified Future Conversion, a Gemini-powered Ads metric predicting 180-day sales from brand and demand-gen ads
Bank of England gains powers to regulate cloud providers AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Microsoft as critical to UK banking
Shein finally wins approval for its Hong Kong IPO from China’s securities regulator after failed listing attempts in New York and London
Meta faces EU fines of up to 6% of revenue over addictive autoplay, infinite scroll, and personalized recos on its platforms
Airbnb hires Michael Tabtabai as VP of creative, poaching OpenAI’s creative chief of under a year to grow its in-house team
New York Times and other news outlets ask a judge to sanction OpenAI over hidden ChatGPT training evidence in copyright case
Google adds an AI-transparency label to Search, YouTube, and Discover ads showing whether they were created or edited with AI
Anthropic adds former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to its long-term benefit trust to advise on AI’s job and economic impact
OpenAI president Greg Brockman takes over its top products after Fidji Simo steps down over chronic illness, ahead of the IPO
Meta’s AI-detection tool fails to identify most cropped images made by its own Muse Image AI watermarked with Content Seal
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