Morning Brief: Thursday, October 8

Good morning. Here's what you need to know in business today.

Top stories

• SBA Advocacy Backs Plan To Strip Head Start Rules For Small Providers The Office of Advocacy urged federal officials to quantify savings from a proposal that would rescind and replace the 2024 Head Start Program Performance Standards.
• Amazon Blocks Meta's AI Shopping Agent As Retail Bot Fight Widens Walmart, Delta, Yelp and eBay set their own rules as personal AI agents get locked out of online checkouts, TechCrunch reported.
• N47's Lak Ananth Bets Firms Must Be Rebuilt Around AI, Not Bolted To It The $2 billion venture firm's founder and co-author Kevin Maney publish "The Human-Machine Company" on December 1, 2026.
• X Pushes Gametime Into Baseball As It Courts Returning Advertisers The social platform is extending its live-sports hub beyond the NFL with an MLB partnership, with NBA content said to follow.
• OpenAI's Dots Product Lead To Take Disrupt Stage Days After Launch Alexander Embiricos will discuss OpenAI's always-on personal AI agent at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, October 13-15.

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