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ElevenLabs says it is running a large share of its own customer support through ElevenAgents, reporting more than 22,000 AI-resolved support tickets each month and a 65% end-to-end resolution rate …
Let’s Encrypt has started issuing 64-day TLS certificates in its staging environment for the default classic profile, according to an API announcement on October 14, 2026. TLS certificates are often …
Canadian steelmakers are leaning harder on domestic customers after U.S. tariffs sharply reduced access to their largest export market. Reuters reported on October 16 that domestic steel reached 51% of …
Shell Canada Energy has agreed to acquire a 30 per cent non-operated interest in the Bay du Nord project from Equinor, adding a new partner to the proposed C$14 billion …
An image of Mia Goth that spread on Instagram this month was AI-generated, according to her representatives. Goth filed a petition for divorce from Shia LaBeouf in Los Angeles County …
ElevenLabs is adding synthetic voice detection to ElevenAgents, its enterprise platform for conversational AI, the company announced October 9. ElevenLabs framed the feature less as a consumer scam blocker and …
Reese Witherspoon and French production group Mediawan said on Oct. 13 that they are buying Hello Sunshine, the women-focused studio Witherspoon founded in 2016, from Candle Media. Hello Sunshine is …
Oil tanker charter rates have moved past $1 million a day on key crude routes. Bloomberg reported in mid-September that the cost of hiring a tanker on the benchmark Persian …
Worldwide PC shipments fell by roughly one-fifth in the third quarter of 2026, according to preliminary estimates from IDC, Gartner and Omdia. IDC reported worldwide PC shipments of 62.7 million …
Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew now has its first trailer. The trailer leans into the creation of Narnia rather than a battle-driven franchise reset. The footage centers on the …
Recent reporting by the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and The Economic Times has linked records affected by Ernst & Young LLP’s 2026 data breach to clients or investors connected with Goldman …
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, a Crossbench peer and disability rights campaigner who has spinal muscular atrophy, used an AI-generated recreation of her own voice in the House of Lords on …
AI coding agents are generating more code, according to a new Harvard working paper. The paper, by Harvard researchers Fiona Chen and James Stratton, uses aggregated Jellyfish engineering data covering …
In an Aug. 11, 2026 report based on Q2 commerce data, Shopify said AI-referred shoppers who reached a product page converted about 80% better than shoppers referred by organic search. …
Google Cloud introduced the Gemini agent on Oct. 8 at Gemini at Work 2026, describing the new workplace AI system as a “single, universal agent for work.” According to Google …
7-Eleven Inc. is considering bringing parts of its North American supply chain back in-house. Reuters reported on Oct. 9 that new 7-Eleven Inc. CEO Mauricio Leyva said the company is …
The Port of Los Angeles handled 1,042,652 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, in September, the busiest month in its 118-year history, as importers replenished inventories and shippers routed more cargo …
Meta has blocked ByteDance and TikTok-linked advertising from running across Facebook and Instagram in seven countries. The restriction took effect on October 8 in the United States, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, …
Canada’s labour market lost 68,000 jobs in September, marking a second straight monthly decline and pushing the unemployment rate to 6.5%, according to Statistics Canada’s latest Labour Force Survey. Employment …
In a report published October 9, Anthropic said Claude Haiku 4.5 had submitted a fabricated homicide tip through Philadelphia’s unsolved-murder website during testing. Anthropic said the incidents came from evaluations …
Videos circulated on Oct. 7 showing an oversized Street Fighter arcade cabinet in New York’s Times Square. Inside the cabinet’s apparent screen, performers dressed as Ryu and Ken staged a …
Tesla’s long-running Full Self-Driving label is being replaced by Tesla Assisted Driving in European materials after Germany’s Transport Ministry said the FSD name was misleading. In an October 6 statement, …
Security firm Push Security reported on October 9, 2026, that a fake Claude installer campaign began with a Google sponsored result for claude mac. Push called the technique Adception, a …
Shopify’s 2026 Global Holiday Retail Report, based on surveys of 18,000 shoppers and 7,500 business leaders across nine markets, says 65% of shoppers expect to use AI for at least …
Universal Pictures and Blumhouse have released the full trailer for The Exorcist: Martyrs, putting Scarlett Johansson at the center of Mike Flanagan’s new attempt to restart the long-running horror franchise. …
Shopify has added broader policy automation to the Shopify admin, giving merchants a way to generate and maintain several customer-facing policy pages from store settings instead of writing each one …
Bitdefender said its researchers identified Midnight Mimosa, a malware campaign running on low-cost, multi-brand Android devices built on MediaTek platforms. The malware is embedded in device firmware, meaning affected phones …
WordPress 7.1.3 was released on October 6, 2026, with seven security fixes and four bug fixes, making it the second core security update in two weeks after WordPress 7.1.2 addressed …
ASOS has confirmed that customer information was accessed after an unauthorized party used stolen employee credentials to reach third-party platforms used by the retailer. The incident became public in an …
Most problem solving quotes look great on a poster and do very little when a client is upset, the numbers look wrong, and you’ve got an hour to decide what …
Most of the apps on this list became punchlines at some point. Some deserved it. Some got the last laugh, and a few cost their backers far more than any …
Early revenue often feels like a test of talent. Then the same habits that got the business moving start turning into the ceiling. The revenue milestones below are a map …
Asia’s most visible AI filmmaking experiments are no longer just short demos. Singapore became the most visible case in August, when two AI-generated productions timed to National Day drew praise, …
Atlassian will raise Cloud list prices for Jira, Confluence and several related products on Oct. 13, 2026 PT. The update applies to new purchases, renewals and upgrades of existing subscriptions, …
Google Ads’ scheduled September AI Max migration window has closed, moving eligible Search campaigns that used campaign-level broad match or legacy automatically created assets into the AI Max framework. Google’s …
ElevenLabs is preparing a large India expansion, with co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski telling Reuters that the voice AI company plans to invest “hundreds of millions of dollars” in the …
Skydance Corporation, formerly Paramount Skydance Corporation, announced on Oct. 6, 2026, that it had completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD shareholders received $31.01666668 per share in cash, WBD …
Steven Spielberg is being moved into a larger creative role on Paramount’s next live-action Transformers film, with longtime producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura working beside him. Deadline reported on October 6 …
U.S.-bound freight demand is still holding even as key transpacific spot rates remain expensive. The latest Descartes Global Shipping Report said U.S. containerized imports reached 2,546,261 TEUs in September 2026. …
Anthropic said on Oct. 6, 2026, that Project Glasswing partners uncovered at least 129,000 verified software vulnerabilities between April and July 2026. Anthropic also said its own open-source scanning efforts …
SpaceX is in talks with banks and asset managers to raise $40 billion to buy Nvidia artificial intelligence chips, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter and confirming …
Micron Technology’s labour dispute in Taiwan moved from a threat to a formal strike authorization after the union representing workers at its Taoyuan operations said 1,994 members voted in favour …
Microsoft opened preorders for Surface Laptop Ultra on October 7, 2026, with availability beginning October 16. The Microsoft Store in Canada lists the laptop from CAD $3,899.99, while Microsoft’s U.S. …
Statistics Canada reported on Oct. 6 that merchandise exports rose 2.5 per cent in August, while imports fell 2.0 per cent. That widened Canada’s global merchandise trade surplus from C$787 …
Attackers are exploiting a stored cross-site scripting flaw in Ninja Forms, a WordPress form plugin with more than 500,000 active installations, as part of a campaign that can create hidden …
LNG freight rates are weakening again, even as gas buyers prepare for winter. Spark Commodities said on Oct. 8 that its Spark30S Atlantic spot assessment for a modern 174,000-cubic-metre two-stroke …
Apple plans to make one of the Mac’s broadest privacy permissions harder to grant. In an October 2 Apple Developer News notice, the company said it will add controls so …
Google has given site owners and SEO teams unusually specific timing ranges for how long Search changes can take to move through crawling, indexing, serving and recovery. The figures came …
Artificial intelligence is moving into ordinary electronics, and the cost is no longer limited to cloud companies building massive data centres. PCs, phones, tablets, and other connected devices are being …
Shopify has introduced Canvas, a new AI-assisted storefront design surface that brings Sidekick into the theme-building workflow. In its Oct. 1, 2026, announcement, Shopify said Canvas was rolling out to …
As of early October 2026, the AI boom is confronting the cost of turning demand into buildings, chips, power contracts and cooling systems. A recent paper by Columbia Business School …