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Last updated October 24, 2026
Google prices its Gemini-powered Googlebook laptop at $899 and opens preorders, with the school Chromebook base as the target
X sues two UK men over a bitcoin account network it says collected £207,384 in creator payouts through fake engagement
Andreessen Horowitz puts $35 million into an unaccredited two-year college alternative in San Francisco for students 16 to 22
ReturnPro acquires Madrid-based iF Returns, adding 200 European brands and exchange software to its US returns operation
Google AI Mode cuts click-throughs to publisher sites by 18.8 points and sends more users to rival search engines, a study finds
Searchable acquires New York rival Meridian in a seven-figure deal, an early consolidation in the AI brand visibility market
Power Digital acquires Amazon agency pirawna, which manages over $1 billion in yearly Amazon revenue, and TikTok agency uptickk
Baselayer raises $35M Series A led by M13 and launches identity tools that verify which AI agent a bank is dealing with
Shopify launches Shopcast, an Apple TV app that puts store sales, top products, and order locations on a shared screen
DeepSeek and Moonshot are invited to speak at Wednesday’s UN Security Council meeting on AI risks, where Sam Altman will brief
Google Ads lets advertisers patch missing email and phone data on tagged conversions with offline uploads from their CRM
Meta’s Muse outpaced ChatGPT’s mobile debut with 1.8 million iOS downloads in the US and Canada over its first 12 days
Shopify partners with Meta on agentic commerce, letting the Muse AI agent check out with Shop Pay on all Shopify stores
TikTok US joins Lantern, the cross-platform child safety program where Google, Meta, Snap and Discord trade signals on bad actors
TikTok’s millennial optimism trend has Gen Z romanticizing an era of fedoras, Polaroids and fixie bikes they never lived through
Google avoided a breakup, but the unsealed order rewrites how its ad auctions work
Meta enshittifies Facebook Pages even further for businesses with a cap on link posts
Amazon, Walmart, & Target announce their October sales events
AI answers to “best product” questions are fueled by content with commercial interest
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