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Last updated October 28, 2026
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
Moonshot files confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO targeting $3B while US officials weigh a trade blacklist over its Kimi models
Anthropic backs a Massachusetts AI bill requiring independent model evaluations every four months while Google and OpenAI object
Meta launches bill payments on WhatsApp in India, connecting 22,722 billers across 30 categories through Bharat Connect
OpenAI ends a Cursor partnership it valued at more than $1B a year in annualized revenue rather than do business with SpaceX
MEPs press von der Leyen to force Meta’s US teen protections onto Europe and float suspending Facebook and Instagram in the EU
Alibaba overtakes Meituan in China’s instant retail market as the platforms swap coupon subsidies for warehouse buildouts
Circle president Heath Tarbert tells House lawmakers that AI payment agents need always-on programmable stablecoin rails
Anthropic and OpenAI share at least 95 investors as the AI boom kills the venture capital rule against backing direct rivals
Anthropic is close to finalizing a $15B pre-IPO credit facility led by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Citigroup
MrBeast signs a multi-year deal with Google to feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his upcoming videos
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