Costco is widely held, with no controlling owner. According to its December 2025 proxy, only two holders own more than 5%: Vanguard (9.79%) and BlackRock (7.83%), both mostly on behalf of index funds.

Anthropic’s Claude for Startups program page says approved founders get a free year of Claude Team, $1,000 in Claude API credits and up to $45K in offers from partner companies. Anthropic announced ...

Figma moved the agent in Figma Design and its Weave tools from open beta to general availability on 6 October 2026, and both now consume Figma AI credits, according to Figma’s own AI credit FAQ. Usage ...

Valon Technologies said on 5 October 2026 that it raised a $150 million Series D at a $2.3 billion valuation, which it says doubles its last valuation, with Ribbit Capital joining as a new investor ...

A five-day jury trial in Qualcomm’s suit against Arm Holdings is due to open in Delaware federal court on Monday 5 October 2026. Reuters reports that Qualcomm accuses Arm of withholding chip testing ...

On 6 October 2026 Sierra published a blog post by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor announcing Personal Agent Protocol. The post calls it “an open standard Meta and Sierra are developing along with industry ...

OpenAI says it is introducing a new visual ad format in ChatGPT, to be tested first during image generation in the US later this month with an initial group of advertisers, and that it is expanding ...

TechCrunch reports that Ghost came out of stealth on 5 October 2026, with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Its product is Core, a $3,499 computer that Ghost’s website describes as ...

The Wikimedia Foundation said on 5 October 2026 that it found activity on its sites from agents it believes OpenAI operated: edits to its wikis, unsuccessful attempts to exploit a public note-taking ...

Tactical management involves choosing an appropriate course of action to achieve a strategic plan or objective. Therefore, tactical management comprises the set of daily operations that support long ...

Anthropic announced on 6 October 2026 that Claude for Google Workspace is in public beta on all paid Claude plans. The add-on opens a Claude sidebar in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. Anthropic also ...

The World Bank’s Africa Economic Update, published October 6, 2026 under the subtitle “Building AI Readiness”, comes with a release saying Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth is “projected to rise from 4.1% ...