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Shopify starts moving app developers toward App Pricing

Shopify's App Pricing migration is now clearer: directly matching subscriptions can move through plan setup, while usage-based and price-mismatched subscriptions stay on the Billing API until a separate Migration API arrives.

Google Ads starts showing how many conversions your first-party data recovered

The shift is broader than another Ads dashboard metric. Google is connecting first-party data pipelines, conversion-recovery estimates, open-source marketing-mix modeling and causal geo experiments into one measurement stack — useful, but still heavily dependent on Google’s own modeling and internal benchmark claims.

Cloudflare Workers replaces 3MB and 10MB compressed bundle caps with one 64MiB uncompressed limit

The change makes heavier frameworks and dependency trees deployable to Workers without plan-specific compressed-size ceilings, but it also changes what builders need to measure: the operative limit is now uncompressed Total Upload rather than the gzip number they may have optimized around.

Google Cloud is making every Application Integration run execute under an explicit identity

The migration turns integration identity from an implicit platform detail into an operational dependency. Teams may need new run-as accounts and `Service Account User` grants not only for runtimes but also for editors, publishers, approvers and deployment automation.

Mixpanel AI can now investigate why a product metric changed and return the result as a working Board

Product teams can launch a root-cause investigation from an Insights report, an alert or Mixpanel Agent instead of manually trying breakdown after breakdown. The result is operationally useful, but it remains an automated statistical diagnosis rather than proof of causation.

Google rebuilds its Ads API Developer Assistant as an agent plugin for live reporting and validation

Google has turned its Ads API helper into a reusable agent plugin rather than a standalone project. For developers maintaining ad-tech integrations, the material change is that agent workflows can now ground themselves in current Protobuf schemas and execute validated reporting against real Google Ads accounts instead of relying only on model memory.

Cloudflare and OpenAI test edge signals that put hundreds of millions of pages into ChatGPT search

Cloudflare supplies page-discovery and change signals; OpenAI independently evaluates and ranks discovered pages. The experiment is limited, respects crawler permissions, and is not a new general opt-in indexing service or a guarantee of traffic.

Cloudflare’s AI crawler controls can now preserve search while refusing training

Cloudflare’s crawler controls now distinguish between refusing AI training and refusing the crawler itself. The new Disallow AI Training option is designed to keep search discoverability while expressing a training opt-out to operators that meet Cloudflare’s Accountable requirements.