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Last updated October 26, 2026
Google lets people send vibe-coded AI Studio apps straight to a private Play Store library and share them without a dev account
Meta lets Facebook users tell its feed algorithm in plain language what they want to see, using LLMs in its ranking systems
Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst move to secure GPUs and data centers for their portfolio startups as AI chips run short
Clueso raises a $10 million Series A led by Dharana Capital for AI agents that record and update product videos for businesses
Shopify launches shop.md, a skill that lets any AI agent shop its billion-product catalog and check out through Shop Pay
OpenAI engineer is charged with planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at its San Francisco office
Splitit launches a white-label World Mastercard that lets mid-sized banks and credit unions build installments into a credit card
OpenAI’s next flagship model also uses loop transformers, after Microsoft accidentally confirmed the technique in GPT-6.1 Sol
Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart for about $7 billion after Anthropic was reported negotiating at $6 billion in August
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta decided to spend up to $200 billion on its AI push before it knew whether the models would work
Loops raises $3.5 million to combine AI search, a shopping assistant, product enrichment, and virtual try-on for retailers
Anthropic posts a £145,000 job for a human assistant to its London go-to-market leaders while it builds Claude to do office work
MIT sues Amazon Web Services for infringing two patents on PUF technology used to generate unique cryptographic keys in the cloud
Amazon workers survive a shooting outside the company’s Red Hook fulfillment center in Brooklyn as police search for two suspects
Apple launches HomeView, a $299 smart home display that recognizes faces and runs its new Siri AI, but won’t sell it in the EU
D Finance raises €545 million in debt and equity to grow its Plazo consumer credit app and Turrón, its new BNPL product in Spain
OpenAI must hand Apple its interview records for former Apple staff after a judge partly grants Apple’s expedited discovery bid
October shopping events hit $9.86B in online sales across all retailers
OpenAI to monetize the time you spend waiting for images to generate
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