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Last updated October 26, 2026
Ikea opens a Douyin flagship store selling 6,500 products across China as it closes stores and leans on online channels
Shopify estimates its merchants generated $1.2 trillion in global economic activity and supported 9.6 million jobs last year
Accenture acquires London data firm Sagacity, adding 140 customer intelligence staff to Accenture Song in the UK and Ireland
Facebook Marketplace’s pay-per-sale boosts quietly set up Meta ad campaigns with daily budgets as high as $600 in a seller test
American Express launches a framework that records what shoppers told AI agents to buy and blocks purchases that don’t match
India’s NPCI delays its 0.4% merchant fee on UPI payments above ₹2,000 until after Diwali as retailers threaten to drop UPI
Meta releases Muse Wonder, its first frontier model, priced at $4 per million input tokens and matching GPT-6 Astra in its tests
Scanntech raises $180M Series F led by L Catterton to expand its Latin American retail data platform built on checkout sales
Microsoft shifts Copilot’s agent mode back toward OpenAI models to protect margins as its Anthropic bill tops $2 billion a year
OpenAI will hire 200 more people in Dublin and open its second applied AI lab, raising its planned Irish hiring to 450 roles
Symbotic acquires cellumation, whose celluveyor sorts packages with hundreds of hexagonal cells that move items in any direction
TikTok CEO Shou Chew and Microsoft’s Judson Althoff warn against AI hype, saying people still outdo models at key creative work
Google begins testing branded prescription drug ads in AI Mode and AI Overviews in the US, with pharma certification required
OpenAI’s agent orchestration platform runs at twice as many companies as Anthropic’s, which leads slightly on shortlists
Google is hiring engineers to generate and recommend AI-written content in Discover, which reaches 500 million users a day
Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang says his meme-filled X posts about Muse were meant to make Meta cool again and helped growth
Meta says hackers used an employee’s stolen login to take code and personal data on 1,500 people from its GitHub repositories
Kroger will lay off 3,000 corporate employees over three years as new CEO Greg Foran pushes the grocer further into AI
Google Ads will turn Demand Gen Lookalike segments into suggestions by default, letting its AI reach past the chosen audience
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