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Last updated November 3, 2026
FTC investigates Block over customer service on frozen Square accounts and asks a court to force it to hand over documents
eFormed Ventures acquires Outdoor Life from Recurrent Ventures to turn the magazine into an AI-powered outdoor gear marketplace
Self-proclaimed crypto “Godfather” Adam Iza is sentenced to 78 months in prison for selling access to hijacked Meta ad accounts
Google launches AI Edge Foresight, a Mac notetaker that transcribes Meet, Zoom, and in-person meetings without using the cloud
Association for Human Mathematics urges mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI after it posts 722 papers written by its AI
Amazon cuts almost 1,000 jobs across retail engineering, customer service, and marketplace support, mostly in its Stores unit
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 90% below Haiku 4.5’s token prices and halves cache-read pricing for Sonnet 5.5
Jio Platforms plans to open India’s biggest IPO on October 21, raising about $3.8B mostly to pay down Reliance Jio’s telecom debt
Anthropic bans sustained abuse of Claude in a usage policy update that also adds rules on elections, fake accounts, and weapons
Google Maps publishes its first Fan-Favorite Dining Lists, ranking restaurants in 10 cities from a year of reviews and directions
Lettering artist Jessica Hische faces backlash from designers for creating Meta’s Muse logo, a $12,500 job she did without AI
Google Ads lets advertisers preview up to 10 AI Max headlines and descriptions before turning on text customization in Search
Capacity acquires a majority stake in UK-based Core Fulfilment to give consumer brands one warehouse partner in the US and UK
OpenAI’s annualized revenue nears $50 billion, about $20 billion below the $70 billion figure that was widely reported last month
StockX Live adds NBA, NFL, and MLB trading cards with card-break rules that ban random team assignments, wheels, and dice
OpenAI’s fired safety researchers deny breaking its rules and say the firings leave staff afraid to work with outside evaluators
Google Cloud launches the Gemini agent for work, which can spin off coworker agents with their own Workspace email accounts
Microsoft cuts internal Claude spending by a third and Meta halves Claude Code users as both push staff onto their own AI tools
Apple and Google lobby states for app store age-check bills that block private lawsuits, countering a Meta-backed rival
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