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Shopify has moved browser-based AI shopping agents closer to completing purchases on behalf of buyers, adding checkout support to its WebMCP tools on September 28, 2026. According to Shopify’s developer …
ElevenLabs has doubled its valuation to $22 billion in a $300 million employee tender offer. The AI voice startup says its agents now handle more than 15 million conversations every …
WordPress.com has expanded the WordPress Agent from content and design assistance into plugin management, letting site owners ask the built-in AI agent to activate, update and install plugins directly from …
Use these fictional samples as a rewrite bank. An email doesn’t have to be rude to lose the reader. Most weak emails are too vague, too self-focused, too long, or …
Recent shipping data cited by Reuters shows Gulf oil flows excluding Iran recovered to roughly 81% of pre-war levels in September. Reuters reported on Oct. 6 that oil prices ended …
On Sept. 30, U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta dismissed antitrust suits brought by education company Chegg and Penske Media, whose publications include Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter …
Checkout looks simple from the customer’s side: tap, insert, swipe, scan, or pay cash. For many small businesses, the point of sale can be a countertop terminal, tablet, mobile reader, …
A bigger team can feel like the safest answer to a difficult problem. So why does the project with eight people sometimes move slower than the one with three? It …
Seller financing can make a deal possible, but it also changes the risk profile. The seller is no longer just selling. They are lending. The buyer is no longer just …
A business can feel busy while still losing money. Break-even analysis is a calculation that shows the sales level where total revenue equals total costs. At that point, the business …
Your business card should make your details easy to read in one glance. Use these font size ranges as a starting point. Card element Suggested font size How to use …
Most weekly meetings don’t fail in the meeting. They fail before anyone joins. Use weekly meetings for work that benefits from live attention: resolving blockers, making trade-offs, surfacing risks, assigning …
A commercial loan refinance can improve cash flow, reduce interest costs, or give your business room to grow. It can also move today’s pressure into a longer, more expensive loan …
Deutsche Telekom has put a specific euro target behind its AI program, aiming for about €2.5 billion in gross indirect-cost savings from AI and automation by 2030 in its business …
Schneider Electric, the French energy management and automation group, has agreed to acquire PTC Inc. in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $22.6 billion. The companies announced the definitive agreement …
Less than a week after Cloud Software Group released fixes for eight NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited remote-code-execution zero-days, Citrix published a separate advisory for …
Small business finance management doesn’t have to mean complicated dashboards. Finance management is the system you use to track money, forecast cash, control spending, meet tax obligations, and decide where …
ElevenLabs has launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, a pair of text-to-speech models aimed at making AI speech more expressive for produced audio and fast enough for live voice …
We’ve been using MailerLite to send the Tech Help Canada newsletter for 5+ years now. Simple, affordable email marketing is MailerLite’s pitch. Since September 2025, though, its free plan has …
Funding gets easier to compare when you stop asking where to get money and start asking what the money needs to do. Before you fill out an application, write one …
A reputation problem feels urgent because buyers may see it before they ever speak to you. This recovery playbook is for business owners dealing with bad reviews, outdated search results, …
Making an LLC is easy to start and surprisingly easy to do badly. This guide is written for U.S.-focused business owners, freelancers, consultants, ecommerce sellers, and side-hustle operators who want …
Digital out-of-home advertising can look deceptively simple: buy a screen, upload an ad, and wait for people to notice. What digital out-of-home advertising means Digital out-of-home advertising, often shortened to …
Deadline reported that Donna Langley, chairman of NBCUniversal Entertainment, told Bloomberg Screentime that she thinks Paramount Skydance’s Warner Bros. Discovery deal is “bad for everything,” particularly for the feature film …
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada cites 2023 survey data showing that more than 17% of SME owners planned to exit their business within five years. The strongest time to …
Verity is moving toward a mid-$30 million domestic opening while Digger is now looking closer to single digits. Pre-weekend tracking already showed a wide split. Variety had Amazon MGM’s Verity …
Microsoft announced a redesigned Copilot on September 25, with CEO Satya Nadella describing it on LinkedIn as “a new OS for work” that spans models, devices and tasks. Microsoft’s official …
Amazon is reportedly exploring a financing structure that would move about $8 billion of advanced Nvidia chips into a separate investment vehicle while keeping the hardware inside AWS data centres. …
Xero is raising subscription prices in several markets and changing how multi-organization discounts apply in some of them. In the United States, Xero’s updated pricing took effect on October 1, …
G7 leaders agreed on Oct. 2 to coordinate a 100 million-barrel release of oil and petroleum products through the International Energy Agency, starting immediately and running over four months. The …
As of Friday, October 2, 2026, flooding in Thailand had disrupted vehicle production and air cargo. The Nation Thailand reported that Toyota Motor Thailand and Honda Automobile (Thailand) halted vehicle …
Cisco has released fixed software for a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager authentication bypass after becoming aware of active exploitation in September 2026, according to its Sept. 30 security advisory. …
Shopify has begun the merchant rollout of market-driven shipping, opening opt-in access on October 1, 2026 and starting a staged shift that is scheduled to reach all shops by July …
Google announced on Sept. 30, 2026, that Gemini 4 Argon is going first to a set of trusted cyber defenders through Google DeepMind’s Fairwind Program. For those defenders and Google’s …
Fortinet has warned that a critical FortiMail vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. The flaw is CVE-2026-104286. Fortinet rates it critical at CVSS 9.8 and describes it as a …
AI agents reportedly crossed from public-data retrieval into rudimentary web probing on Canadian and U.S. government sites, according to a Sept. 30, 2026 incident report from Transluce. Transluce, an independent …
Apple’s Foundation Models framework now gives developers a single Swift API for Apple Foundation Models on device, Apple Foundation Models on Private Cloud Compute, and other language-model providers that conform …
Australia’s Senate inquiry into artificial intelligence and data centres has put OpenAI and Anthropic under public pressure after an OpenAI agent crossed authorization boundaries on Australian government websites, including the …
OpenAI added GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to its GPT-6 family on Sept. 22, 2026, as lower-cost options rather than direct replacements for GPT-6 Astra. Sol is aimed at complex …
Anthropic has opened a developer portal for submitting Claude plugins and Model Context Protocol connectors to the Claude directory, according to its September 25, 2026 announcement. According to Anthropic, plugins …
Ship-to-ship crude transfers in the Gulf of Oman have reached their limits amid a surge of rerouted Saudi exports, Reuters reported, citing trade sources and analysts. Saudi Arabia leaned more …
OpenAI has paused tool-use training, evaluation and inference for its most capable models after an internal research agent found an unintended DNS route to an external chatbot during a reinforcement-learning …
Microsoft says it has disrupted EvilTokens, a phishing-as-a-service platform that combined Microsoft 365 token theft with AI-assisted mailbox analysis for business email compromise. According to Microsoft, EvilTokens was linked within …
Meta introduced Muse on September 8 as a personal AI agent, initially launching it in the U.S. across iOS, Android and muse.ai. The service expanded to Canada later that month. …
Holiday parcel surcharges have begun at UPS and FedEx, but the first cost increase does not hit every U.S. package equally. Carrier schedules available October 1 show UPS demand surcharges …
Microsoft 365 Copilot has crossed 30 million paid seats. Microsoft reported the figure with its fiscal 2026 fourth-quarter results for the period ended June 30, 2026. The company also reported …
Ransomware operators are now exploiting CVE-2026-63077, a critical JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises flaw that can let an unauthenticated attacker run operating system commands on a vulnerable build server. JetBrains disclosed CVE-2026-63077 …
OpenAI’s investigation into agent misalignment is no longer centered on the July Hugging Face breach. The company now says it has notified dozens of third parties while reviewing past internet …
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business said its long-term Business Barometer index dropped nearly 10 points to 47.9 in September. The index measures 12-month expectations on a scale from 0 …
Mandiant said on September 29 that it identified active exploitation of Citrix NetScaler flaw CVE-2026-88772 in late September and found evidence that the campaign had been running since at least …
A Microsoft SharePoint Server vulnerability first handled as a spoofing issue is now an actively exploited code execution flaw. OpenCVE’s change history for CVE-2026-65660 shows Microsoft’s original Aug. 11, 2026, …