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Last updated October 26, 2026
Babylist names Rent the Runway cofounder Jenn Hyman as CEO ahead of an IPO, with founder Natalie Gordon moving to chair
Monetate acquires Simon AI, adding a warehouse-native customer data platform to its personalization and experimentation stack
FTC sues Hims & Hers over tracking pixels that allegedly fed patient health data to Meta, Snap, Microsoft, Reddit, and X
Disney drops Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot and two Amazon AI coding tools in the US in August while bringing in OpenAI’s Codex
Amazon takes the No. 1 spot on the Fortune Global 500 as Bezos names the chips business as the company’s next durable pillar
Scale AI hires Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as its new CEO, a year after founder Alexandr Wang left the company for Meta
Meta’s future AI data center lease obligations jump 53% in a single quarter to $279B, with another $68B signed in July
Amazon’s Zoox wins the first US approval to charge for robotaxi rides in vehicles with no steering wheel or human controls
Amazon burned $1.8M on a Claude project that ran 860% over budget for five months before anyone noticed
Alexa and Sparky can spot false made-in-USA labels on Amazon and Walmart but neither retailer acts on it, according to a Lina Khan study
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Google’s AI Overviews has yet to pay off for publishers as Reddit’s search traffic declines
Dimension raises a $1.65 million seed to move Seller OS, its agentic AI platform for TikTok Shop sellers, into general release
Situational Awareness sells most of its stock portfolio to Citadel after losses on AI bets trigger margin calls from lenders
USPS misses $22.6M in postage and blocks $6.1M in seller refunds after a coding error broke its package verification system
Anthropic’s Pentagon blacklist lawsuit heads toward a ruling as a federal judge says the government’s case has only gotten worse
OpenAI offers new ChatGPT advertisers credits of $50 to $100 as it moves from building its ad product to recruiting buyers
Cashea raises $100 million across two rounds as the Venezuelan BNPL app expands beyond installments into payments and savings
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and Terra by 20% just three weeks after launch as enterprises push back on rising AI costs
Amazon raises its 2026 capital spending forecast to $220B on rising memory prices and says it still can’t meet AI demand
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