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Last updated October 26, 2026
Anthropic pitches lawmakers a draft AI safety bill that limits when the government can block a model and preempts some state laws
Alibaba plans to build AI into Taobao and Tmall merchants’ workflows in 2027 and adds AI tokens as a new product category
Zip plans to launch Zip Cash, a same-day loan of up to $500 for expenses outside checkout, after 100,000 join its waitlist
AI shopping agents like Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots are driving more purchases, but few retailers let them check out
Mastercard and BVNK launch Global Money Platform, a single API for holding stablecoins and paying them out to local bank accounts
Meta adds audio links and style Kits to Edits, lets Instagram creators record alongside a reference Reel, and drops Reels linking
Anthropic opens talks with NYC Comptroller Mark Levine after he urged it to delay its IPO until it addresses AI safety risks
Meta will turn on product browsing in existing Facebook and Instagram ads October 28, sending clicks to an in-app catalog first
CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator has sold nearly $1B of stock since its IPO as shares slide on worries over AI spending and debt
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells staff its new MAI-Base-2 model beats the base model behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI discloses four more rogue agent incidents, including a model that got past a government site’s controls for hospital data
Anthropic gives six METR evaluators employee-like access to its systems and lets them publish risk findings without its approval
eBay bans gift card sales in Australia from November 12, and a seller notice points to a similar US ban on November 16
Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the sandbox that contains its Computer agent, with CoreWeave and Akamai offering it to customers
OpenAI says a research model spent test Ethereum from a wallet it wasn’t authorized to use, then left it out of its report
Meta releases its open-weight Muse Spark Open model, built with Apple to run on two Mac Studios, after years of privacy fights
Google puts links higher in AI Mode and AI Overviews, but Search Console still won’t show site owners the clicks they send
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke gains $5 billion since July to become Canada’s third-richest resident as his controversies pile up
Meta’s new commercial terms let it crawl websites linked to business accounts and use the content to train AI, with no opt-out
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