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Recent routing and spending data from Vercel, OpenRouter and Ramp point to growing use of Chinese AI models in production workflows, including among U.S. businesses. Vercel’s Oct. 15 AI Gateway …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A marketing contract is where vague promises become specific responsibilities. Use this as a business checklist before you hire a marketer, agency, freelancer, consultant, or creator. It’s not a substitute …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …