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Last updated October 26, 2026
Upgrade applies for a Nevada industrial loan charter to open its own FDIC-insured bank and fund loans beyond its partner banks
Anthropic asks the D.C. Circuit to rehear its challenge to the Pentagon’s supply chain risk designation after a 2-1 loss
Marklo, an AI startup from Stella & Dot founder Jessica Herrin that tells Shopify brands what to promote, raises a $5M seed
OpenAI triples ChatGPT advertisers to about 60,000 as it cuts ad prices and hires dozens of former Meta staffers to sell ads
Etsy confirms Printify and Printful parent FYUL runs its new digital-to-print test, and sellers get nothing for printed designs
Amazon recalls nearly 113,000 bottles of its Basic Care extra strength acetaminophen after shoppers report discolored pills
Missouri sues Temu, alleging its app secretly harvests user data and that it sells fake Chiefs, Cardinals, and Budweiser gear
OpenAI’s 110 UK employees averaged £2.3 million each in salary and shares in 2025, more than double the £1.1 million in 2024
Google and UPS are sued over the Google Search package tracker, which allegedly sends user data to Meta, Adobe and other ad firms
Duvo raises a $32M Series A led by Balderton to bring its AI agents for back-office operations to US retailers and CPG brands
OpenAI says in-person field events are its strongest channel for selling ChatGPT to businesses that already know the consumer app
Block CFO Amrita Ahuja says companies are starting to list AI agents alongside human employees on their published org charts
TikTok Shop expects bigger holiday beauty sales and more brand-hosted livestreams as category growth slows to 39% in Q3
United folds its Kinective Media ad business into MileagePlus until seat-back screens and Starlink Wi-Fi reach its whole fleet
OpenAI faces a proposed class action claiming it trained ChatGPT models on children’s private chats without parental consent
Google Ads expands its AI Max search terms report to show the headlines, descriptions, and landing pages served for each query
Algolia launches native Shopify B2B support that shows each business buyer only its approved catalog and negotiated prices
Google Ads lets advertisers rank Search partners and the Display Network as low priority and cap their share of daily budget
ChatGPT clicks now land in analytics as direct traffic after GPT-6 drops UTM tags and referrer data from the links it shows users
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