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Last updated: 25 October 2026, 13:21 (UTC)

  1. Digital Commerce 360 E-Commerce

    Salesforce to acquire Braze for $5.66 billion to expand AI-powered marketing (opens in a new tab)

    Salesforce plans to acquire Braze for $5.66 billion, making an artificial intelligence (AI) play for technology to help brands respond to shopper behavior in real time. Under the definitive agreement announced Oct. 20, Braze shareholders would receive $47.50 per share in cash.…

  2. TechCrunch AI AI

    Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise (opens in a new tab)

    Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.

  3. TechCrunch AI AI

    Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work (opens in a new tab)

    The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.

  4. TechCrunch AI AI

    Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose (opens in a new tab)

    Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.

  5. TechCrunch AI AI

    Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agents (opens in a new tab)

    Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users.

  6. Practical Ecommerce E-Commerce

    AI Shopping Metrics Considered (opens in a new tab)

    Successful AI shopping assistance is measured by the quality of buying decisions, not how much time customers spend interacting with the tool. The post AI Shopping Metrics Considered appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

  7. TechCrunch AI AI

    Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to you (opens in a new tab)

    Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.

  8. TechCrunch AI AI

    DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions (opens in a new tab)

    DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the U.S. ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.

  9. MIT Technology Review AI

    Making the case for context-aware AI (opens in a new tab)

    Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships that determine whether a decision is the…

  10. MIT Technology Review AI

    AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind (opens in a new tab)

    Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data…

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