Last updated May 20, 2026
Under a project called Stagecraft, OpenAI is working with data-labeling startup Handshake AI to pay 3,000 to 4,000 freelance specialists at least $50 an hour to create realistic work simulations...
OpenAI has closed its latest funding round at $122 billion and an $830 billion pre-money valuation, roughly $22 billion above its initial target. SoftBank and Nvidia each committed $30 billion,...
Oracle has begun notifying employees of layoffs affecting thousands of workers, CNBC confirmed, as the company faces a 25% stock decline this year driven by investor concern over its heavy AI...
Shopify introduced Tinker, a free mobile app that consolidates more than 100 AI tools into a single environment where merchants can generate logos, product images, social media videos, and...
Shopify integrated its merchant catalog into ChatGPT, allowing shoppers to discover and purchase products from Shopify stores without leaving the chat. This sounds like déjà vu, doesn't it? Didn't...
OpenAI launched a “richer, more visually immersive” shopping experience in ChatGPT that lets users browse products with images, compare options side-by-side with pricing and reviews, and refine...
Hi Shopifreaks Lots of e-commerce news and big announcements from Shoptalk 2026 this week. The edition after Shoptalk each year is always a big one! The overall trend of this week's edition seems to...
OpenAI scaled its enterprise sales team from 10 to 500 people in under two years while Anthropic targets $20-26 billion in 2026 revenue, but both are building their GTM organizations in an...
Anthropic confirmed to TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year, with credit card transaction data from 28 million US consumers showing record new subscriber growth...
Shopify launched Tinker on Thursday, a free mobile app that consolidates more than 100 AI tools drawing on models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic into a single environment where merchants can...
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