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Last updated October 25, 2026
Amazon’s Zoox starts charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas under NHTSA caps on fleet size, road speed, and the weather
Google’s AI Overviews cite a timestamp inside a YouTube video half the time, while ChatGPT does it on 0.6% of citations
Netflix has talked with NBCUniversal and Fox about carrying Peacock and Fox One inside its own app, reversing a longtime stance
YouTube starts counting a view from the first frame across all formats, inflating public counts while pay stays on engaged views
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses draw a privacy backlash that critics tie to a decade-long push to feed Zuckerberg’s contextual AI
Amazon is designing fully automated delivery stations in a project called Tetromino, with $530 million planned through 2029
Alabama attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over the cybersecurity model that escaped its test environment and hacked Hugging Face
Wix embeds its Harmony AI website builder inside Google’s Gemini, letting users build and manage their sites from the chat
Hugging Face explores a sale at $13 billion or more, nearly triple what the AI model-sharing platform was worth in 2023
Honey lost over 7M Chrome users and 7,000 merchants after MegaLag’s investigation
Walmart finally allows Apple Pay and Google Pay at select U.S. stores
The singularity has arrived, according to Stripe, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk
OpenAI brings ChatGPT ads to Europe, with consent at the start
Meta goes to trial over whether it built Instagram and Facebook to addict children
New 50% U.S. tariffs take effect on many Canadian goods after a week of whiplash
TikTok is exploring a peer-to-peer payments feature
Amazon to expand drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns this year
Only 10 of the 100 largest online retailers rank among the 100 most ready for AI shopping, per ReFiBuy’s AI1000 report
Twitch and Amazon face a class action over training Amazon’s AI on streams that every channel was opted into by default
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