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Last updated October 26, 2026
ORA Technologies raises $2M more from Moroccan backers, extending its super app Series A to $10M for food delivery and payments
Anthropic posts a $600K investor relations director job to craft its investment narrative ahead of a possible fall IPO
Whale raises a $40M Series C extension led by CMB International and SMBC to scale its enterprise AI operating system globally
WSJ columnist Christopher Mims argues AI is becoming a cheap commodity that benefits China and rivals while eroding OpenAI and Anthropic moats
European Commission issues binding DMA measures forcing Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data
Alphabet Workers Union rallies at Google HQ and delivers a 4,500-signature petition to Sundar Pichai seeking layoff protections
Ed Zitron warns OpenAI props up the entire AI spending boom and its failure would be the bubble’s Lehman-style collapse
Google brings personal AI avatars and its Gemini Omni model to Vids, letting users star in videos from a selfie and voice clip
Zepto launches an invite-only paid membership called Club with cashback and free delivery as it preps for its India IPO
San Francisco’s city attorney orders Apple and Google to pull 13 AI face-swap apps used to make nonconsensual nude images
X Corp and music publishers end their three-year licensing war as both drop copyright and antitrust suits with prejudice
OpenAI’s chatbot ad revenue is projected to fall about 90% below its own $100B 2030 forecast as chatbot ad sales stay modest
BNPL merchant fees raise prices for all U.S. consumers and warrant federal regulation, according to a consumer advocacy report
Amazon’s AWS loses longtime SVP Dave Brown after nearly 19 years, handing compute and ML to e-commerce exec Dave Treadwell
Stripe and Advent offer more than $53B to buy PayPal at $60.50 a share, a 28% premium that sends its stock up nearly 17%
Microsoft’s new security chief Hayete Gallot is overhauling its cyber business around AI, replacing execs and cutting roles
Anthropic is in talks to add billions to its bank credit line ahead of a planned IPO that could target a $1 trillion valuation
TikTok is testing new detection to catch AI-spam accounts in politics, finance, and medical content, plus a C2PA committee seat
Cents acquires garment-care analytics platform Insight Systems to add reporting and accelerate its dry-cleaning expansion
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