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Last updated October 26, 2026
TikTok Shop UK auto-enrolls sellers in an ad program that advertises their unpromoted products and reinvests every sale in ads
Wix connects its Symphony AI agents to Stripe’s Link wallet so they can pay invoices and reorder stock for small businesses
TikTok teams with creator studio MADE BY US to co-produce scripted micro-series starring its own creators for TikTok and PineDrama
Amazon launches Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse AI wearables that listen to conversations and can feed shopping recommendations
Google launches Universal Cart in the US, letting shoppers save items from Walmart, Target, and Shopify stores across Gemini
Anthropic president Daniela Amodei calls AI girlfriends and boyfriends a terrible use of AI that pushes people further apart
Google says its AI can already run full self-improvement loops in some areas as labs race to build models that improve models
Remote work holds steady at about 26% of US workdays for two years despite return-to-office pushes, nearly four times 2019
Apple and Nvidia each gave $25 million toward Trump’s White House ballroom, topping a list of tech donors that includes Google
nFOX Lab emerges from stealth with a platform for running open AI models in-house and will open-source its Blockhouse sandbox
OpenAI is hit with three new lawsuits alleging ChatGPT drove a 15-year-old to suicide and pushed two other users into psychosis
Forgepoint raises $9.8 million from Primary and a16z speedrun for Frank, an AI agent that handles quoting for manufacturers
Anthropic tells IPO investors its Q3 revenue rose 45% to $16.8 billion, a slowdown from Q2, as bankers weigh a lower valuation
CNN signs a multiyear deal with Google to get paid for letting its articles power Google’s AI answers to news questions
Stand with Crypto urges Canadian lawmakers to make the country a leader in AI agents paying with stablecoins
Netflix cuts about 1,000 jobs across product, tech, legal and HR in its biggest layoffs since 2022 as its viewing growth slows
Meta’s Muse could ease investor worries about Big Tech AI spending this earnings season, but analysts want to see it make money
Cursor ran an internal investigation into whether staff testing of Grok Bot sent confidential customer data to SpaceX’s AI unit
Miracly, a startup that tracks how brands show up in ChatGPT and Claude, launches with a $2M pre-seed led by Beenext Ventures and Lotus
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