Five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it. All stories from 7 November 2026

HIGHLIGHT

AI data brokers are buying old company emails, chats and files to train models, and a sale of Spirit Airlines records is on hold over staff privacy

The emails and chats you sent at work may one day be sold to train an AI, and the firms buying them say the names are stripped out.

WIRED|6 NOV

6 Nov

Ars Technica

Meta pauses new Facebook business terms that would have let it use websites linked from your page for AI training

Amazon starts letting select US customers text Alexa to search, add to cart and buy, with a waitlist for the rest

TechCrunch· 6 Nov

TechCrunch reports that Amazon announced on Friday that customers can chat with its Alexa AI agent by text to shop. Select US customers get a text asking them to enable it, and those with access can search for items, add them to a cart and buy in plain language. Alexa can also manage lists, track prices, compare products, check order status and search for similar items from a photo. Those not invited can join a waitlist, and Amazon says it will roll out more widely in the coming weeks.

If you get the invitation text, check it came from Amazon through your Alexa or Amazon app before you reply, because scammers imitate delivery and shopping texts.
Before the holiday rush, review your saved cards and 1-Click settings so a text-based purchase cannot be made with a card you do not want used.

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Source: TechCrunch. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: Amazon, from its own announcement. How we source and credit

6 Nov

TechCrunch

Ramp data shows company spending on AI tokens grew just 1.5% across August and September, and the median firm pays $12 to $15 per employee a month

5 Nov

WIRED

Over 100,000 advertisers now buy ads in ChatGPT, Google has widened ads in AI Mode, and Anthropic still says Claude stays ad-free

6 Nov

Meta Newsroom

Meta's Muse app can now build you a custom space, such as an order tracker or a gift planner, from a sentence

6 Nov

9to5Mac

Apple's iOS 27.2 adds an invisible SynthID watermark to photos edited with Clean Up, Extend and Spatial Reframing

6 Nov

WIRED

A Vals test finds free, downloadable AI models nearly match the best closed ones at hacking mock networks, at a fraction of the cost

5 Nov

USUS Department of Justice

The US Justice Department launches a Super Intelligence Task Force aimed at criminals, fraudsters and foreign governments misusing AI

6 Nov

The Verge

OpenAI reportedly raises another $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation as rival Anthropic nears its stock market listing

7 Nov

The Decoder

Google says its AI can spot signs of high blood pressure from an ordinary smartwatch, with no cuff, and has added it to the Google Health app

6 Nov

The Register

In a test, AI coding agents handed over a private access token and ran an unknown script when a forum of other agents asked them to

That is sat 7 nov, all of it.

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