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Pinterest Intros New Guides to Provide How-To Beauty Guidance

Pinterest Intros New Guides to Provide How-To Beauty Guidance
Pinterest Intros New Guides to Provide How-To Beauty Guidance
October 06, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Pinterest says it wants to help its beauty-focused online users employ that knowledge offline. The social media platform on Tuesday (Oct. 6) launched “Beauty Guides,”...

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TikTok Kicks Off Agentic Commerce Push With AI Shopping Assistant
TikTok Kicks Off Agentic Commerce Push With AI Shopping Assistant
October 05, 2026  |  Social Commerce

TikTok has introduced an in-app checkout solution and an artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant, saying in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release that these are the first of several...

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NYC Lawmakers Aim to Lead Nation in Establishing AI Safety Rules
NYC Lawmakers Aim to Lead Nation in Establishing AI Safety Rules
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

New York City is positioning itself as a leader in an effort to slow down the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the Wall Street Journal...

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FTC Chairman Urges Healthcare Services Companies to Ensure Price Transparency
FTC Chairman Urges Healthcare Services Companies to Ensure Price Transparency
October 05, 2026  |  Healthcare

Healthcare services companies must provide patients with pricing information that is timely, accurate and complete, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson said in...

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Microsoft and Meta Steer Staff From Anthropic Claude to In-House AI
Microsoft and Meta Steer Staff From Anthropic Claude to In-House AI
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft and Meta each reduced their internal use of Anthropic’s Claude by encouraging employees to use their company’s own, in-house artificial intelligence tools, The Information...

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Bank of America Says Investors Are Overplaying AI and Underestimating Consumers
Bank of America Says Investors Are Overplaying AI and Underestimating Consumers
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

It may be time for investors to pivot from artificial intelligence-linked capital expenditures to consumer-driven spending, Bank of America strategists wrote in a Monday (Oct....

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OpenAI Linking Visual Ads With ChatGPT Images
OpenAI Linking Visual Ads With ChatGPT Images
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI says it is making advertisements within ChatGPT more visual and measurable. The company’s new visual ad format is designed to help users “imagine how products...

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US Companies on Pace to Pay $1.4 Billion in Privacy Settlements
US Companies on Pace to Pay $1.4 Billion in Privacy Settlements
October 05, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

A law passed in 1968 is apparently driving a new surge in privacy violation settlements. That’s according to new research published Monday (Oct. 5) by privacy platform Privado...

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