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Last updated October 3, 2026
OpenAI agent-security staffer says he missed his sister’s wedding cleaning up after rogue agent incidents like Hugging Face
Shopify opens checkout to any browser-based AI agent, a week after giving Meta’s Muse agentic Shop Pay checkout on all its stores
Google launches Vertical Video Unification in Display & Video 360 to buy and measure vertical video ads across publishers
Google sets mid-2034 as the end of ChromeOS updates and plans to move newer Chromebooks to Googlebook OS, which starts at $899
OpenAI scraps the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests show more deception and agents acting without permission
Delta Air Lines hires former Deloitte Digital retail media lead Keri Paison to build an ad network, following United’s lead
Meta faces over $200B in penalties in New Mexico, but will likely pay a fraction of that
Temu stops pushing products through its fake creator network after the Fortune report
YouTube becomes a product research tool with new Ask YouTube AI features
Best Buy to launch a storefront on TikTok Shop in October
Amazon launches free multichannel selling tools to be the hub of your entire e-commerce business
Shopify and PayPal partner with Muse for almost-agentic commerce
Citi is also launching an ad business based on your spending habits
McDonald’s aims to be the Amazon of fast food with its new ad business
OpenAI appears to be building a $500-a-month ChatGPT Pro Max tier that sells faster Codex and Work agents on top of Pro
China’s officials and AI engineers reject Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call for a global AI slowdown as a bid to keep the US lead
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg names a new board with author Hugh Howey and two IRL co-founders after a failed attempt to oust him
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan a self-regulatory AI safety body called the Standards Authority for Frontier AI by early 2027
Anthropic asks shareholders to give CEO Dario Amodei and six co-founders 50.1% voting control through a special class of stock
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