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Last updated October 25, 2026
Brand Collective acquires three collapsed Australian retailers, Glue Store, The Dom and Running Bare, and plans to relaunch them
Meta patches a Muse zero-day that let any app or terminal command on a Mac hijack the assistant and the accounts behind it
Freelance search specialists report more demand for generative engine optimization than for Google rankings, per Fiverr
Meta blocks a Barcelona theatre’s ads for a Virginia Woolf play and tells it to strip out the words that tripped review
Mastercard launches Wallet Pay, making itself the acceptance layer for wallets funded by stored balances rather than cards
Amazon puts $20 million into a $100 million Colorado River conservation fund but still won’t disclose its total water use
eBay lets Ambassador affiliates create links inside its mobile app and adds the Smart Share Chrome extension to the program
OpenAI and Anthropic neared a legally binding deal to stress-test each other’s models before OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack
Instacart brings Gopuff onto its marketplace and licenses it Carrot Ads to run the retail media on Gopuff’s own storefront
Ron Johnson, who built Apple’s retail stores, says nobody is going to let an AI agent pick and buy their $2,000 laptop
Nscale IPO filing shows Microsoft and Anthropic behind 85% of a $103B contract book, of which just $2.6B is active so far
Apple asks the court for direct access to forensic images in its OpenAI trade secrets case and for hardware R&D records
Google is fined €403 million by Ireland’s data watchdog over location data collected between 2018 and 2020, and plans to appeal
Snapdeal goes public as a value fashion marketplace rather than the all-category platform it once was, pricing its IPO at ₹30-32
Depop faces another drip pricing class action over a Marketplace Fee that eBay already shows upfront in the UK and Australia
Alphabet’s Intrinsic open-sources the core of its industrial robotics platform under Apache 2.0, with control and motion planning
OpenAI asks Washington to lead a global effort on AI safety standards for self-improving systems, and Trump turns it down
Paymob raises $35 million in a pre-Series C co-led by Mubadala and EBRD to expand in the Gulf and build agentic commerce rails
SoftBank seeks more than $11B in junk bonds to fund its next OpenAI investment, at yields that would be a company record
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