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Last updated October 6, 2026
Shopify says it keeps its cut of AI chatbot shopping through Shop Pay and is containing Sidekick’s AI costs with open models
Meta plans to launch camera-free Luna smart glasses this fall amid privacy concerns over its camera-equipped Ray-Ban models
Shopify sets up a Luxembourg subsidiary and hires compliance staff to seek an EU electronic money licence for Shopify Payments
Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen restrict their use of Anthropic’s Fable model over its 30-day customer data retention policy
eBay will stop counting eBay Live sales toward Seller Standards, Service Metrics, and Top Rated Plus eligibility on October 15
TikTok Shop buyer who got the wrong $3 shirt says trying it on made him “discombobulated” and asks on video if he was laced
Mark Zuckerberg backs independent AI evaluators and says Meta delayed Muse on its own without calling for a slowdown
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking voice models across the Gemini API, Workspace, and Search
OpenAI is in early talks with investors about a pre-IPO funding round that would value the company at over $1.2 trillion
Trump rejects the AI industry’s calls for regulation, calling warnings about the technology a hoax and naming Dario Amodei
eBay posts a shipping protection economics job as transaction losses climb 55% to $133 million on shipping program claims
Amilo acquires cross-border specialist SG Link and renames it ShipX, adding 220 shipping destinations for SEA merchants
Anthropic signs a $13.7 billion compute deal with Rum Group, the renamed Rumble, and takes an option on 51 million shares
Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have discussed creating their own AI standards body modeled on FINRA to test frontier models
Anthropic picks Nasdaq for the IPO it is targeting for October, the exchange’s second mega-listing this year after SpaceX
OpenAI president Greg Brockman says an AI slowdown should apply only to frontier labs, not open source or hobby projects
Qupital raises $300 million from M Capital, MUFG and Quester Capital to expand cross-border seller lending and weigh an IPO
California enacts Adam’s Law making AI chatbot companies liable for harmful outputs, with OpenAI helping shape the bill
SoftBank falls about 11% after Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI listing in 2026, delaying the exit on its $64.6 billion bet
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