Goodwill, the world's largest thrift retailer, now uses AI listing tools to sell its best donated items online before they reach store floors, squeezing resellers who built businesses on those finds. …
Live shopping startup Whatnot is in talks to raise a new funding round at about a $20 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter, a significant jump from its $11.5 billion valuati…
Whatnot, a live-shopping platform, presented a blueprint for observability at scale at Snowflake Summit 2026, detailing how it uses automated AI analysts and platform monitoring to handle billions of …
Meta launched Seller, a standalone iOS app for Facebook Marketplace power sellers that uses Meta AI to generate titles, descriptions, and prices from a single photo, and includes a unified inbox and p…
Whatnot, the livestream shopping platform, acquired AI startup Shaped to integrate real-time recommendation and search technology, aiming to enhance personalization and expand into new product categor…
Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine-learning company for real-time recommendations and search, to accelerate live-shopping discovery. Shaped founder Tullie Murrell and nearly a dozen engineers and AI r…
Livestream shopping app Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine learning company specializing in real-time recommendation and search systems, to strengthen its discovery and personalization capabilities. T…
Sakshi Kesarwani built BazaarLive, a live video auction platform for India's $16 billion collectibles market, during the H0 Hackathon. The platform uses LiveKit for streaming, WebSocket bidding with s…
Whatnot launched LeLiveBoost, an AI-powered browser extension that provides seller analytics, CRM tools, and real-time size detection to help live sellers increase sales and streamline operations. The…
A former intern in OpenAI's first cohort reveals that the key lesson from working at the AI lab is not speed but judgment—knowing what to trust, what to test, and when humans must stay in the loop. Th…