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The latest headlines on artificial intelligence and online retail from selected trade media, updated every hour.

Last updated: 25 October 2026, 12:17 (UTC)

  1. Digital Commerce 360 E-Commerce

    David’s Bridal plans to spin off its AI-powered Pearl platform (opens in a new tab)

    In 2025, David’s Bridal’s Shopify transition paved the way for an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) reimagining of its Pearl wedding planner — and now, the company has plans to spin off Pearl as its own entity. K&F Growth Acquisition Corp. II, as special purposed acquisition…

  2. TechCrunch AI AI

    OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO (opens in a new tab)

    Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.

  3. The Verge AI AI

    Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them (opens in a new tab)

    Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image…

  4. MIT Technology Review AI

    Designing an AI serving harness built to last (opens in a new tab)

    The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capability: bigger models, better reasoning…

  5. The Verge AI AI

    Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say (opens in a new tab)

    Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge - but legal experts say these changes aren't enough to address their concerns. "This does nothing to restrict the 'associated with your…

  6. TechCrunch AI AI

    1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password (opens in a new tab)

    The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.

  7. TechCrunch AI AI

    Canva releases its first image generation model (opens in a new tab)

    Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

  8. TechCrunch AI AI

    OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up (opens in a new tab)

    OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?

  9. MIT Technology Review AI

    The Foundations of Scalable AI (opens in a new tab)

    A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future conference explores what it takes to build that foundation in a highly…

  10. TechCrunch AI AI

    Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’ (opens in a new tab)

    Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.

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