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Last updated October 25, 2026
Walmart doubles its sub-30-minute delivery volume and takes the service to 38 US markets as stores carry the last mile
Anthropic asks job candidates in culture interviews how they’d feel if a safety decision drove the company’s stock to zero
eBay doubled engineering output under a program called Velocity, but its former chief architect says the culture blocked the rest
Brazil’s data protection agency fines ByteDance R$153.7 million over how TikTok handles children’s and teenagers’ data
SerpApi moves to dismiss Google’s amended DMCA complaint, arguing Google never produced the licenses behind SearchGuard
Canada answers Trump’s Section 338 tariffs with counter-duties on C$27.6B of US goods, from cosmetics to video game consoles
SoftBank plans a record ¥1T retail bond sale to fund its OpenAI commitments, leaving a $20B shortfall even after it prices
eBay puts Depop banners on its homepage and atop fashion search, sending buyers off the site sellers pay to advertise on
Walmart hires 21-year Google veteran Sonia Wadhawan to run partnerships for its AI Acceleration, Product and Design team
OpenAI is building its ads business around enterprise buyers first, with a $374K to $415K hire to court big brands and agencies
DTC brands are shifting to Amazon as Google’s AI results cut organic traffic and Meta and Google ad prices keep climbing
Western European streaming subscribers absorbed the world’s steepest price increases over the past three years at $1.86 a month
New US visa fees are pushing frontier AI founders to build in China instead of America, per One Way Ventures’ Lex Zhao
Microsoft’s Cloud and AI staff report stock awards reaching $1.4M while Xbox tops out at $65K, per a leaked pay spreadsheet
Shopify’s Tobi Lütke says he’ll build the AI-native Shopify himself, and Sam Altman says not every business is up for grabs
Thomson Reuters launches its own AI model, adapted from Alibaba’s Qwen, to cut what it pays frontier labs like OpenAI and Google
Trump threatens to double tariffs on Canadian vehicles to 50% in January and extend them to USMCA-compliant auto parts
Nvidia is in talks to back Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion, up 50% from where the search company was a year ago
Meta is preparing to launch Hatch, a consumer AI agent trained to shop and act on sites including DoorDash, Etsy, and Yelp
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