Mia Sato

Small businesses told Modern Retail they were shocked to find their products for sale on Amazon without their consent as part of a “Buy For Me” feature the retail giant announced in 2025. Some sellers actively choose not to associate with Amazon; others found errors in listings on the platform, or that Amazon was selling out-of-stock items.

During testing, the AI agent also ordered a PlayStation5 and live betta fish, and staffers convinced it to give away almost everything for free, losing a bunch of money. Sounds fun!

The Beatles drummer pops into the corner of a livestream titled “Airport Gamble Sesh” and asks the streamer if he’s “on the radio.” At one point, Starr gets right up to the camera, apparently trying to make sense of whatever is happening on the stream. The streamer seems to have zero idea who Ringo is while viewers try to tell him in the chat. Starr pretty quickly leaves the area because the streamer keeps coughing and seems to be sick.

A report by Gudea, which tracks online conversations, describes how accusations of white supremacy and Nazism spread following Swift’s album release this fall. According to the report, just 3.77 percent of users accounted for more than a quarter of the conversation; it also found overlap between the users driving the Swift discourse and users active in an “astroturf campaign attacking Blake Lively.” Naturally, the inauthentic discourse then prompted real backlash and responses, making it an even bigger discussion.