- 6 minutes 7 secondsMeta warns that election backlash against data centers could make AI expansion harder
Plus - Amazon now lets users text Alexa to help them shop; The New York Times reportedly in talks to buy Letterboxd for $330 million
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7 November 2026, 11:00 am - 8 minutes 16 secondsAmazon ditches GrubHub, taps Uber Eats for Prime
OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane thinks the 2028 presidential election could be a defining moment for AI. And he wants politicians to start developing policies that address Americans’ concerns about the technology, rather than simply paying lip service to anti-AI sentiment and the backlash against data centers.
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6 November 2026, 12:00 pm - 6 minutes 38 secondsGoogle faces backlash for school AI plan
Plus - Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth; Waymo confirms it will split with Uber in January 2028
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5 November 2026, 12:00 pm - 6 minutes 34 secondsApple says it’s ‘hard to predict’ when iPhone Duo constraints will improve
Plus - Apple Watch’s AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations begin beta testing; Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search
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4 November 2026, 12:00 pm - 7 minutes 30 secondsSpaceX reportedly wants to buy Boost Mobile
OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’; Ford launches a ‘privacy promise’ and explains how and why it uses customer data
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3 November 2026, 12:00 pm - 8 minutes 25 secondsPrime Video is on track to earn ‘tens of billions of dollars’
Plus - Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out; DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
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31 October 2026, 10:00 am - 7 minutes 27 secondsMicrosoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists and subscriptions and update delivery instructions; DoorDash to acquire Instacart for $17B
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30 October 2026, 11:00 am - 7 minutes 45 secondsMeta has a new AI pet app called Waddle World
Plus - GM is embracing hybrids now; Discord is making its public communities more searchable, and people have concerns
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29 October 2026, 11:00 am - 7 minutes 28 secondsInstagram goes from short-form to 90-minute videos
Plus - It sounds like the iPhone Duo keeps cracking and users aren’t happy about it; X is nudging users to promote their posts with a pointing hand
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28 October 2026, 11:00 am - 7 minutes 52 secondsAnthropic officially files for its public debut
Plus - Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber; Apple unveils new iPad mini with OLED display and faster A20 Pro chip
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27 October 2026, 11:00 am - 8 minutes 5 secondsSpotify confirms Family Plan crackdown
Plus - OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO; 1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password
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