Cross-border intelligence

AliExpress announces its overseas Double 11 strategy: multiple increases in traffic and subsidies, with new non-EU customers to grow by 25%

US holiday retail sales forecast to reach US$1.013 trillion in 2026

US holiday retail sales are projected to rise by 4.2% to US$1.013 trillion in 2026, although inflation and pressure on household budgets continue to shape the outlook. The post US holiday retail sales forecast to reach US$1.013 trillion in

China-Qatar Cooperation | The People's Bank of China and the Qatar Central Bank Renew the Bilateral Local Currency Swap Agreement to Promote Bilateral Trade and Investment

The People's Bank of China and the Qatar Central Bank signed an extension of the bilateral local currency swap agreement, further strengthening financial cooperation between the two countries and supporting bilateral trade and direct investment.

Use one Zapier MCP server across all your AI tools

Your team probably uses more than one AI tool. One person drafts in Claude, another works in ChatGPT, and your engineers live in Cursor. Zapier MCP now lets all of them connect to one server. Every connected client gets the same apps, actio

OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio

OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio to bring AI-powered operations to life sciences R&D, helping biopharma teams accelerate drug development and advance new treatments.

Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively

AnyLanguageModel 1.0: One Year of Local Models on Apple Platforms

MPS in PyTorch 2.15

Mercado Libre y Diners Club se alían para impulsar las compras digitales en Ecuador

First-party Mercado Libre or Mercado Pago news in Spanish. Country-specific products and merchant services do not imply availability in every Latin American market.

Engage+: la nueva solución de Mercado Ads que usa IA para predecir el interés de los usuarios y automatizar campañas

First-party Mercado Libre or Mercado Pago news in Spanish. Country-specific products and merchant services do not imply availability in every Latin American market.

Amazon Brand Analytics: Get data to grow your business

First-party seller operations and announcements. Check the original for marketplace, fees and eligibility.

Notice on the public announcement of the list of enterprises proposed for allocation in the 2026 wool and wool tops import tariff quota reallocation

Official policy announcement; the original site only indicates the date, so please read the original text for specific applicable conditions and effective time.

1-800-Flowers.com sells two business units to PlanetArt

Less than one month after a final deal was announced, 1-800-Flowers.com confirmed that the sale of its PersonalizationMall.com and Things Remembered units to PlanetArt is now complete. 1-800-Flowers.com’s sale to the technology platform mar

Structured outputs for Anthropic Claude models on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now supports structured outputs for all Anthropic Claude models on both the bedrock-runtime and bedrock-mantle endpoints. Receive schema-compliant JSON that conforms to a defined structure, without custom parsing, retry logic

177-2026: Reminder: Changes to import conditions for Xylella host nursery stock commencing on 20 January 2027

20 October 2026​ Who does this notice affect? ​​This notice affects importers of live plants (nursery stock), customs brokers and departmental staff.​ What is changing? ​​As previously notified via …

Ramp Seeks National Trust Bank Charter for Digital Asset Custody

Finance platform Ramp aims to form a national trust bank that would offer fiduciary investment management and custody of digital assets, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 19) post on X. Ramp submitted an application to establish the propos

The AI forwarder of the future

Agentic process execution could change the P&L far beyond productivity, and the real gains for forwarders sit in execution quality, margin capture and a new kind of moat. “Innovation and productivity are at the core of what we do.” That was

AI Agent Cuts Centalion’s Trade Finance Amendment Time 80%

Issuing a bank guarantee at a large commodity trader is still a desk job. A treasury employee checks how much room is left on a credit facility, pulls the banking details from one system, confirms the limits in another and keys the transact

Analysts Expect Touch-Screen MacBook Pro Debut at Apple’s Oct. 28 Event

Apple will host a product launch event dubbed “Pro and tell” on Oct. 28, and analysts expect the company to introduce its first touch-screen MacBook Pro, according to multiple media reports. Greg Joswiak, senior vice president of worldwide

Developers can now access SageMaker Studio through the new AWS experience

New Amazon SageMaker AI customers can now land in a fully configured SageMaker Studio environment in only a few steps. Sign up with an identity you already have, such as Amazon, Apple, GitHub, or Google, with no advanced AWS account or cred

YouTube tests new Shorts incentives

The platform is experimenting with bonuses for invited creators and expanding its shopping affiliates program, as well as updating shopping analytics.

Pinterest shares festive holiday brand guide

The overview offers tips for marketers to help prepare them for peak shopping season, including a checklist for promotional success.

October 20 E-commerce Morning Brief: AliExpress Double 11 set for October 29; SHEIN's Poland logistics center expands hiring again

Freight Fraud Gets More Strategic Heading Into Peak Season

As the freight industry heads into its highest-volume stretch of the year, the cargo theft numbers tell a deceptively reassuring story. Reported incidents fell sharply in the second quarter of 2026, down roughly a quarter from the year befo