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4 stories

1. 
   September 14, 2026

   ServiceNow bundled the AI. It did not bundle the bill.

   Now Assist ships inside all three of the new tiers and meters against a pool. The top-up rate is unpublished, and negotiable only before the signature.

2. 
   September 14, 2026

   PDD is bringing Temu closer. Someone has to pay for the stock.

   Romania's postal service will handle Temu deliveries and returns for local sellers. Moving stock closer to the shopper only works if the merchant's economics survive the storage, the delivery and the returns.

3. 
   September 14, 2026

   AppLovin opened its platform. The advertiser still has homework.

   Adam Foroughi says the hardest part of AppLovin's ad system is still making the ad. That is the constraint on a business growing 53% a year as it tries to expand past game advertisers.

4. 
   September 9, 2026

   OpenAI boots Adobe out of ChatGPT while its own kingdom shrinks

   OpenAI told ad partners, Adobe among them, that they can no longer run ChatGPT ads for image or audio products. The eviction notice arrived the same week its share slipped below half.