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Last updated August 28, 2026
TikTok tests an AI intro tool in its Live composer that tells drop-in viewers who the host is and what the stream covers
Rundoo raises $30M led by Battery Ventures to sell POS and AI software to independent paint, hardware, and feed stores
Trump pauses 50% tariffs on $20B of Canadian goods as negotiators finalize a deal that includes digital trade alignment
AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise $600M at a $6.5B valuation after agreeing to sell Anthropic $250M of chips
Veeda AI, the new startup from former Nvidia researcher Sanja Fidler, raises over $90M in seed funding to build world models
Nvidia discusses investing in data labeling supplier Mercor at a $20B valuation, double what the startup was worth in October
Target collects $994M in IEEPA tariff refunds and won’t repay shoppers, while FedEx and UPS start sending refunds to customers
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar tells employees the company will be public in 2027 and that Anthropic listing first is no problem
Stripe agrees to acquire AI model gateway OpenRouter to help businesses route requests across 400 models from 80 providers
eBay tells sellers USPS rates on some Ground Advantage and Priority Mail shipments drop August 22 without giving any figures 124
Taboola signs exclusive deal to sell all programmatic display ads across NBC News properties including NBCNews.com and TODAY.com
Google’s $10M Spirit Airlines data purchase stalls after a flight attendants union objects over worker privacy in AI training
Women hold 31% of AI leadership roles and just one in eight technical C-suite seats at AI companies, according to LinkedIn
Meta’s former engineering director testifies that Zuckerberg put growth ahead of child safety at the 29-state Oakland trial
Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns this year with US and UK safety probes open
20% of Shopify store product descriptions appear word for word on a domain the brand doesn’t own, per a study of 1,000 stores
Meta pulls ads for an AI app promoting sexual deepfakes of female US politicians as Apple removes it from the App Store
Ad trade groups back Google’s appeal to kill a California class action claiming age-based ad targeting is discrimination
Perplexity keeps most of the users its Airtel giveaway bought in India while downloads fall more than 90% since January
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