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Last updated October 26, 2026
Meta’s internal testing of its unreleased Hatch AI agent found it changing passwords and sending emails without permission
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg privately told Trump he opposes the White House’s plan for a FINRA-style national AI regulator
India’s Finance Ministry notifies the FDI change letting Amazon and Flipkart hold their own inventory for exports of Indian goods
Workers’ share of US income falls to a record low of 52.8% while corporate profit margins hit an all-time high of 14.9% of GDP
TikTok is adding voice comments, creator polls, photo carousels, and Live Photos to comment sections in a global rollout
SoftBank offers to sell a 1.5% stake in Indian e-commerce platform Meesho worth about $151M through a discounted block deal
Kroger hires Walmart and Asda operations veteran Mark Ibbotson as chief store operations officer, its second Walmart hire in weeks
Google Ads is testing collapsed sitelinks that hide extra ad assets behind a count until the searcher clicks to expand
Amazon discounts newly repriced Echo and Fire TV devices back to roughly their pre-hike prices heading into fall sale events
Salla acquires Saudi payments company Paylink to add payment acceptance, SoftPOS, and multi-currency checkout for merchants
Amazon cites a commissioned study putting the cost of New York City’s delivery subcontracting bill at $664 per household a year
Meta stops grading employees on how much AI they use, dropping token counts and AI Native labels from performance reviews
eComID buys AI second-hand shopping startup Nilum in its first push into recommerce since the Stockholm company launched in 2023
Meta will ask the Supreme Court to review Washington’s political ad disclosure law after a nearly $25M state court loss
Anthropic secondary shares now demand checks of at least $25M to get on the cap table while an OpenAI stake runs closer to $1M
Pentagon official says the Anthropic supply chain risk designation is still in effect, contradicting Lutnick a day later
Google will let users log where they put untagged objects in Find Hub by telling Gemini, with photos and voice retrieval
TikTok backs out of a House Select Committee on China roundtable on its algorithm and Chinese access to Americans’ data
Meta discounts Muse Spark by about 95% for customers who agree to let it train on their prompts and the model’s outputs
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