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Last updated August 17, 2026
Meta charges developers for AI access for the first time with Muse Spark 1.1, priced around 25% of OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic’s combined IPO valuation could top $4 trillion, more than every US VC-backed exit since 2000
India challenges at the WTO the legal basis of an interim deal 66 countries are using to enact a plurilateral e-commerce pact
Anthropic launches Reflect, a Claude dashboard that visualizes your AI usage and offers nudges to use it more mindfully
Block agrees to a $45M settlement with 46 states over Cash App fraud and safety claims, backstopping $75M in CFPB restitution
Sam Altman says OpenAI made ‘many changes’ during government talks before releasing GPT-5.6, and disputes 5%-stake reports
OpenAI Deployment Company will buy applied-AI firm Northslope, its second deal to embed more engineers with enterprise clients
eBay adds Live livestream shopping to its Partner Network affiliate program, letting affiliates earn commissions on live events
Bank of America extends its first loan to OpenAI, a $520M credit line, ahead of the AI company’s planned $1 trillion IPO
Fiserv president Dhivya Suryadevara resigns weeks after her promotion, leaving July 31 amid the payments firm’s leadership churn
TikTok’s ‘not interested’ feedback cuts unwanted videos 84% but only briefly, as its algorithm relapses and refills the feed
Walmart’s price-dropped grocery list beats Kroger and Amazon in a Business Insider basket test, $52.32 to $58.52 and over $70
Facebook and Instagram users keep accidentally cross-posting to Threads, driven by an easy Facebook toggle that stays on
Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping helped drive a 17.1% conversion jump during Prime Day 2026 in the U.S., even as traffic fell 10.3%, per CommerceIQ
Google introduces three video commerce tools for Southeast Asia across YouTube and marketplaces, piloting them with Shopee
Amazon barred a breastfeeding business owner from an in-person course session because under-sixes are banned from its warehouse
Whering, a London-based digital wardrobe app, raises $7M in seed funding led by eBay Ventures and Google’s AI Futures Fund
Amazon plans to raise at least $25B in an eight-part bond sale to fund its AI buildout, its last debt issuance of 2026
Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code as of July 10, citing security risks, after the distillation-attack accusation
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