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Last updated October 26, 2026
TikTok pauses a dating test that dropped users into live group chat rooms with singles in the US and a few other markets
Shopify’s Horizon theme climbs from 7.4% to 8.6% of storefronts in a single quarter, four times the share gain of any other theme
New Jersey’s attorney general sues Amazon over the pay and working conditions it sets for Delivery Service Partner drivers
The White House calls OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic staff in Tuesday to review a finished framework for voluntary model reviews
OpenAI pays $3.2M to settle Justice Department claims that it steered high-paying tech jobs toward temporary visa holders
Strategy sells $104.7 million of Bitcoin below its own cost basis to cover preferred dividends and an $81 million STRC buyback
Teads sues Google over Last Look and Project Bernanke auction practices it says still run after Google said it retired them
No security backdoor has been publicly documented in a major Chinese AI model even as US officials cite backdoors as a risk
SpaceX buying Tesla would settle the intercompany conflicts Musk creates by moving staff, chips, and Grok models between the two
Public Knowledge asks the appeals court to force a Chrome divestiture and ban Google’s search payments to Apple and Mozilla
Pie takes an undisclosed investment from Amex Ventures to sell local merchants on AI search visibility and customer acquisition
TikTok kept 10% of US users out of its 2021 filter bubble safeguard as a control group to measure the cost to engagement
OpenAI publishes messages and emails it says undercut Apple’s trade secrets suit and its request for a preliminary injunction
RepSpark raises a $22 million strategic investment from Headlight Partners to expand its B2B wholesale platform beyond golf
Meta makes its AI Developer Assistant the primary support path for developers instead of documentation and support tickets
Small business sales in the U.S. grow on bigger tickets rather than more customers as restaurant transactions fall 3.6%
Anthropic hires former Carnegie Endowment president and California Supreme Court justice Tino Cuéllar to run global affairs
eBay draws downgrades from Wells Fargo and Citizens ahead of Wednesday’s earnings over the cost of growing Depop against Vinted
Jeff Bezos files to sell 15 million Amazon shares worth about $4.1 billion a day after the stock closes at a record high
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