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Last updated October 25, 2026
Shopify App Store apps are growing about 28% a year, at least twice as fast as the 10% to 14% growth in Shopify stores
ChatGPT sends websites less than 1% as much traffic as Google organic search, per SEO consultant Marie Haynes’ study of 100 sites
President Trump says Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused his request to rename the Atlantic Ocean on Google Maps, so he’ll probably drop it
Affirm becomes Sam’s Club’s exclusive pay-over-time provider, launching online in the coming weeks and in clubs in 2027
Amazon renames Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+ and adds AI-narrated audiobooks of self-published titles to the $12 subscription
Meta’s São Paulo office draws hundreds of protesters accusing it of favoring Flávio Bolsonaro over Lula ahead of Brazil’s runoff
OpenAI’s internal AI agent monitoring could be bypassed six ways, including one that hid hundreds of actions, per METR and Redwood
Meta’s new terms make advertisers solely responsible for its AI ad edits from Oct. 30, as agencies pull ads it changed unasked
Uber rolls out OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work agent to more than 30,000 employees after a 1,000-person pilot, with GPT-6.1 Sol as default
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says mathematicians went from despair to acceptance of AI in days, as Terence Tao says something is lost
Reservoir sues Suno and Anthropic for allegedly training AI on songs it owns by Madonna, Johnny Cash, and Joni Mitchell
Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI each post their biggest lobbying quarter yet, spending nearly $6M combined from July to September
DeepSeek raises about $15B, among China’s largest funding rounds ever, after twice raising its target as it prepares for an IPO
Google faces backlash in Finland after clearing an estimated 250,000 trees for a data center without environmental reviews
Anthropic names Harvard astrophysicist Christopher Stubbs to the Long-Term Benefit Trust that elects most of its board before IPO
Aftersell says an attack exposed upsell settings for 22 Shopify stores, denies any checkout hijacking as it seeks to be relisted
Amazon takes food market share from supermarkets as its sales of fresh seafood, produce, and dairy jump after same-day expansion
Stord acquires AMS Fulfillment in a nine-figure deal, adding 10 warehouses and over 150 beauty and DTC brands to its network
OpenAI asks brands for $300,000 minimums and $40 CPMs to run ChatGPT ads alongside AI-generated images in a new pilot test
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