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TL;DR Flash.co pivots to an AI shopping agent that overlays product pages with price comparisons and review audits, signaling a shift to algorithm-mediated commerce.
TL;DR Zero-click searches hit 60% and CTRs drop 61% in AI-heavy SERPs, forcing a pivot from traditional SEO to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).
TL;DR Ex-Urban Ladder CEO raises $12M to disrupt the Indian AC market with climate-specific hardware, launching Feb 2026.
TL;DR Institutional investors reject Shadowfax's high-valuation IPO due to thin margins and customer concentration, signaling a market shift away from growth-at-all-costs models.
TL;DR Ringg AI raises $5.5M to build proprietary voice models, moving away from API wrappers to improve margins and data compliance.
TL;DR Google's new agentic commerce standard (UCP) conflicts with India's Cash-on-Delivery culture, creating an opening for "Trust-as-a-Service" startups.
TL;DR Snap settles addiction suit to avoid trial/CEO testimony, isolating Meta and signaling valid liability risk for "addictive" product features.
TL;DR Sensesemi raises $2.75M to build ultra-low-power AI chips for medical and industrial devices, targeting Q1 2026 tape-out.
TL;DR Tesla counters Nvidia's Alpamayo release by reviving Dojo3 for orbital compute and locking in a $16.5B chip supply chain to own the physics of AI training.
