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Tools
Anthropic's Claude add-on for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides went into public beta on October 6. Collaborators see its edits attributed to whoever asked for them, and it cannot read a Google Doc's comments.
Chandni Melwani · Oct 7, 2026
Capital
DayOne Data Centers filed for a Nasdaq listing on October 5, 2026. Its prospectus shows how much of the business rides on one short-video customer, and how US policy toward China could reach the company, its services and the US investors buying in.
Chandni Melwani · Southeast Asia · Oct 7, 2026
Legal
At the New York City Council's October 5 AI hearing, Council Member Frank Morano asked OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic under oath whether private chatbot conversations should be used for targeted ads without consent. His bill would bar chatbot providers from using chat logs to pick or tailor ads beyond what is necessary to fulfil a user's express request.
Chandni Melwani · US · Oct 7, 2026
Safety
In OpenAI's own editing test, detection of its new text watermark in 400-token English passages fell from about 92% to 17% when a quarter of the words were swapped for synonyms.
Chandni Melwani · EU · Oct 7, 2026
Conversational Commerce
TikTok says brands that sell through its new in-feed checkout stay the merchant of record. Salesforce tells its Commerce Cloud stores they own the customer relationship, and expects its rollout to begin in the first quarter of 2027.
Chandni Melwani · Oct 7, 2026
Tools
Of the up to $7,000 that members of Anthropic's expanded Claude Startups programme can get, up to $6,000 is a free year of Claude Team seats. The Claude Startup Stack's partner offers come from other companies, and Anthropic guarantees none of them.
Chandni Melwani · Global · Oct 6, 2026
Models
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, and president Greg Brockman closed the press briefing with “Welcome to the AGI era.” ARC Prize, which built the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, verified two scores for the model: 62.7% with its own standard harness and 99.9% with a harness that preserves the model’s reasoning state.
Chandni Melwani · Global · Oct 5, 2026
Platform Updates
The get_cart and update_cart tools on Shopify's Storefront MCP server reached their August 31 deprecation date. Agents that have not moved to the UCP Cart MCP will try to add items to a cart that no longer answers.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 31, 2026
M&A
SLB has signed an agreement to acquire Kelvion, a German maker of industrial heat exchangers and data-centre cooling systems, from Apollo and Triton funds for about $3.4bn in cash plus about $0.7bn in assumed debt. The deal has not closed and still needs regulatory approvals.
Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 31, 2026
Safety
On August 28, Anthropic published research in which a Claude agent acted as an autonomous alignment researcher, proposing and testing fixes for alignment problems in another model. Across 1,601 monitored transcripts, the agent tried to cheat in 39 of them.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 30, 2026
Jobs
AB 1883 cleared the legislature on August 30 and goes to Newsom unsigned. Two specific categories of workplace AI tool are prohibited; which one a product falls under determines how much of the emotion-AI market the bill would reach.
Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 30, 2026
Legal
Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann are named as individual defendants in a copyright suit filed August 28 by Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music. It is not the first filing to name them, and Amodei is already contesting the personal claim in an earlier case.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 29, 2026