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🇨🇳Oct 19, 2026 US sanctions "China's Y Combinator" over stolen Google AI secrets

🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Disney to hire 60 Character.AI staff for ~$60M a year after bankruptcy

Media🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Banks and retailers start blocking AI shopping agents, including Meta's Muse

Hosting🇨🇦Oct 19, 2026 River threads jump to 121,804 as Shopify's AI agent floods its Slack

Health🇰🇪Oct 18, 2026 Two Kenyan AI startups win $5,000 grants in Meta's inaugural Kenya pitchathon

🇬🇧Oct 18, 2026 Microsoft exits Nscale's UK site weeks before $35B IPO push

Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 Anthropic's AI agents outwork staff 6-to-1 as junior tech hiring collapses

Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 OpenCode breach drains users' AI keys as platforms holding customer credentials come under attack

Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 OpenAI's ad run-rate hits $1B as it poaches Meta talent, chases $2.4B target

🇺🇸Oct 17, 2026 OpenAI and Rockefeller back city AI projects with $50M fund

Media🇺🇸Oct 17, 2026 Meta drops 'train' from scraping terms, but broad crawling rights remain

🇨🇳Oct 17, 2026 DeepSeek moves up the stack: V4.1-Flash update ships alongside its own Search and Fetch APIs for agents

Travel🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026 Booking Holdings backs AI travel agent Vayo with $100M

Enterprise Software🇨🇳Oct 16, 2026 Chip startup XHEART draws Renault, hits $700M total raised

Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026 Anthropic pitches Congress its own frontier-AI bill: models could only be halted above 50 deaths or $1B in damage

Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026 Simons Foundation, OpenAI and Anthropic put $15M behind mathematicians wrestling with AI proofs