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Last updated October 26, 2026
HubSpot reverses course on its new data-sharing policy change that sparked backlash
Google Maps could soon let users order food in-app via its Gemini-powered Ask Maps, based on hidden code in the Android app
Google billed a developer over $11,000 for Gemini charges from a hijacked key it flagged itself, and refuses to refund him
Amazon winds down Mechanical Turk, closing the 2005 microtask crowdsourcing marketplace to new customers on July 30, 2026
Meta secretly used contractors posing as minors to probe rival chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with high-risk prompts
Genesys acquires agentic AI workflow startup Pinkfish to bring 25,000 MCP tools and autonomous action to its CX platform
Shopify audit committee chair Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah resigns from the board to join the U.S. Commerce Department full-time
Open Standard launches Open USD, a fee-free stablecoin backed by 140-plus firms including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Shopify
Amazon’s $40M ‘Melania’ documentary produced a $10.71M licensing fee, which Trump reported as Melania’s income on his 2025 disclosure
Amazon vows action against its India delivery partner M&M Logistics after a fire killed two workers, pending the police probe
Dawnguard launches a platform that builds secure cloud architecture from day zero and raises $3.3M more for $6.3M total
Google Ads cost-per-click climbs 15% for European e-commerce advertisers while Performance Max return on ad spend drops 46%
Hostinger launches an e-commerce platform that turns a product photo into an AI-built checkout link in minutes with no website needed
Shopify shoppers pivoted to sleep aids, dumb phones, and repair parts in June as they fixed old devices instead of buying new ones
Addi raises an $85M Series D led by Citius and co-led by BTG Pactual to grow its Colombian commerce and credit platform
Anthropic hires UC Berkeley computer science professor Jelani Nelson onto its Claude pretraining team
Young Indonesian couple publicly caned in Aceh after a kiss on a TikTok livestream went viral and drew Sharia charges
Trump made $1.4B from crypto since retaking the White House, including $636M from his $TRUMP memecoin as most buyers lost money
TikTok cuts 450-plus tech jobs at Indonesia’s Tokopedia, moving TikTok Shop and Tokopedia development to ByteDance in China
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