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OpenAI and Target announced a partnership expansion on October 10, 2023, to launch a ChatGPT-powered shopping app in beta next week, enabling users to request product ideas, browse items, assemble multi-item carts, purchase groceries, and complete transactions directly within the platform. This development builds on OpenAI’s recent efforts to integrate retail functionalities into ChatGPT. Last...
Amazon Prime Video announced the addition of AI-generated Video Recaps on Wednesday to assist viewers in catching up between seasons of select television shows. The feature employs generative artificial intelligence to produce videos for specific Prime Originals, including Fallout, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and Upload, with a beta rollout beginning the same day. The Video Recaps generate theatrical...
Google has introduced vertical tabs in the latest Canary build of Chrome for desktop, enabling users to switch layouts via right-click menus. The feature, spotted by Windows Report, stacks tabs in a sidebar to provide more screen space and reduce clutter. Chrome’s Canary version serves as an experimental release channel where Google tests upcoming features before they reach stable versions....
Perplexity, an AI answer-engine platform, plans to launch a free agentic shopping tool next week in the United States, enabling users to automate purchases directly within its website and app through a partnership with PayPal. The company, which also develops the Comet AI browser, currently offers a “Buy with Pro” tool that assists users with shopping tasks. This existing feature remains...
Developers are creating an open-source Turnip driver for Qualcomm’s Adreno 8xx GPUs to address emulation performance issues on Snapdragon 8 Elite and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 devices, with a potential release in 2026. The Snapdragon 8 Elite and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 rank among the most powerful processors for Android phones. These chips handle resource-intensive games effectively through their...
ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have announced a strategic three-year partnership with NVIDIA to decode the 98% of the human genome that remains largely unexplored, Globes reports. The collaboration aims to use artificial intelligence to analyze non-coding DNA, a vast portion of the genome once dismissed as “junk DNA” but now believed to play...
Elon Musk’s xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15 billion in equity at a $230 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth since a March merger with social media platform X, as outlined by Musk’s wealth manager Jared Birchall to investors on Tuesday night. The Wall Street Journal reported on these negotiations, which position the two-year-old artificial intelligence startup among the world’s...
Spotify acquired WhoSampled, a London-based community-run database tracking sampled music, as announced in a Wednesday blog post. The deal includes the company’s approximately 10 staffers and its database, with terms undisclosed, to integrate data into Spotify’s music discovery tools. WhoSampled launched in 2008 and maintains an extensive database covering songs, samples, covers, remixes, and...
Major League Baseball announced today that it has signed new media rights agreements with Netflix, NBCUniversal, and ESPN, covering the next three seasons. The deal with Netflix marks a significant expansion for the streaming service into live sports, granting it the rights to stream a single game on Opening Night of each season, the annual Home Run Derby, and one “special event game” per year....
OpenAI has announced a new version of its programming-focused AI model, GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, which is designed to handle larger and more complex coding tasks. The new model will be available tomorrow for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, and Enterprise users, replacing the previous GPT-5.1-Codex as the recommended model for agentic coding. The standout feature of Codex Max is its improved context...