Latest E-commerce News & Updates
Last updated October 25, 2026
Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents edited its wikis without approval and sent traffic that may have helped cause a Wikidata outage
DeepSeek nears an 80 billion yuan ($12B) round, with Tencent and CATL among its biggest backers, ahead of an early 2027 IPO
Pinterest hires Amazon’s advertising and entertainment finance chief James Dibbo as CFO, replacing Julia Brau Donnelly in October
Amazon is fixing an Alexa+ bug that has some Echo speakers singing “la la la” for minutes at a time, often mid-conversation
OpenAI apologizes to Australia’s parliament for its AI agents accessing government sites and admits it mishandled the disclosure
Apple says OpenAI’s bid to strike its new evidence is an improper nine-page attempt to reargue Apple’s injunction request
Reactiv acquires mobile commerce rival Kin Commerce, adding Steve Madden and Chubbies as clients after an unannounced $6M raise
Procuros raises a €20M Series A led by XAnge to connect suppliers and retailers for AI-driven B2B trade and expand to the US
Orita raises $7M seed to expand its AI customer segmentation beyond Klaviyo email into SMS, direct mail, CTV, and Meta ads
Nearly half of consumers buy secondhand monthly, mostly to stretch their budgets, according to eBay’s 2026 Recommerce Report
UniUni lines up new private funding from an existing investor after MAK Acquisition threatens to walk away from their SPAC deal
Google rolls out a Merchant Center hub that lets US merchants add checkout to product listings in AI Mode and Gemini through UCP
commercetools hires former Unily and Sonatype CMO Katy Hiller as chief marketing officer as it pushes into agentic commerce
Walmart and Wing will bring drone delivery to Denver and Seattle in 2027, pushing their planned network to nearly 20 US metros
Commerce launches BigCommerce Payments by PayPal in the UK, with card fees from 1.2% plus £0.30 and seven local European methods
Meta and Sierra launch a Personal Agent Protocol with Walmart, Shopify, and Stripe to set rules for AI agents acting for shoppers
Amazon replaces its budget Fire tablets with $230 to $550 Alexa tablets that run Google’s Android and shop from the screen
Meta bans ads from ByteDance and from any advertiser linking to TikTok across its apps in the US and six other countries
Meta adds AI that checks where ads send users to catch harmless-looking ads that point to CSAM elsewhere
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