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Tech Competition is Helping Americans. Here's How.
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Wednesday • November 5, 2025
Microsoft Expands Copilot Mode in Edge with Full Rollout of New AI-Powered Browsing Mode
Microsoft has Officially Launched Copilot Mode in Edge with a Range of New Features
“Up until now, using a browser has meant doing all the work yourself — typing, clicking, tab-hopping and task-juggling,” said Sean Lyndersay, Vice President, Microsoft Edge. “Browsers have always been our gateway to the web, but they’ve never truly worked alongside us. “The experience has been static for too long. When was the last time you questioned your browser?” Well, now, according to Microsoft, you can.
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Wednesday • November 5, 2025
Snap Shares Soar on $400 Million Perplexity AI Deal
Snapchat Parent’s Stock Rises as Much as 25% in After-Hours Trading
Starting in early 2026, Perplexity will appear in the popular Chat interface for Snapchat’s nearly one billion monthly active users. The AI company will pay Snap $400 million over a year in a deal that includes cash and equity. That’s about 7% of the social-media company’s 2024 sales.
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Wednesday • November 5, 2025
1 million business customers: the fastest-growing business platform in history
Customers such as Booking.com, Cisco, Morgan Stanley, T-Mobile, Target, and Thermo Fisher Scientific are Already on Board—with More Joining Every Week
Today, we’re announcing that more than 1 million business customers around the world are directly using OpenAI—the fastest-growing business platform in history. This includes all organizations that actively pay OpenAI for business use—either through ChatGPT for Work, or through direct consumption of our models through our developer platform.
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Tuesday • November 4, 2025
Amazon and Perplexity have kicked off the great AI web browser fight
Amazon Says It has ‘Repeatedly Requested’ that Perplexity Stop Allowing Its AI Browser to Purchase Products for Customers
Amazon doesn’t want to be a part of Perplexity’s AI-powered shopping experience. In a post on Tuesday, the ecommerce giant says it has “repeatedly requested” that Perplexity stop allowing its Comet AI browser to buy products for customers, which Perplexity has responded to by accusing Amazon of “bullying.”
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Tuesday • November 4, 2025
Shopify says AI traffic is up 7x since January, AI-driven orders are up 11x
The Company’s Advantage in the AI Era comes from Its Ability to Access the Data from Millions of Merchants and Billions of Transactions
E-commerce software provider Shopify is bullish on AI-powered shopping agents, citing AI as an “incredible tool” to enable more entrepreneurs and calling it the “biggest shift in technology since the internet” during its third-quarter earnings call. The company, which partnered with ChatGPT maker OpenAI in September, reported that traffic from AI tools to its online stores is up 7x since January of this year, and purchases attributed to AI-powered search have increased by 11x.
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Thursday • October 30, 2025
Canva launches its own design model, adds new AI features to the platform
Creative Suite Company Canva Launched Its own Design Model on Thursday that Understands Design Layers and Formats to Power Its Features
Canva said that it is launching its own foundational model, trained on its design elements, that generates designs with editable layers and objects rather than flat images. The model works across different formats, including social media posts, presentations, whiteboards, and websites.
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