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uBlock Ban, Amazon's Ad Suit, and OpenAI's Pricing — September 1, 2026
Google pulled uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension from the Chrome Web Store today. The FTC says Amazon secretly added a hidden price floor to its ad auctions, costing advertisers twenty billion dollars or more. Different companies, same instinct. We go through OpenAI's test of paying only when a task actually completes, Google's new forecasting model built for time series data, Tim Cook's move to executive chairman after fifteen years, and the EU's toughest rules landing on ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox.
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