Month: April 2025
Shopify is hiring ChatGPT as your personal shopper, according to a new report
New code reveals ChatGPT may soon support in-chat purchases via Shopify The chat would offer prices, reviews, and embedded checkout through the AI The feature could give Shopify merchants access to ChatGPT’s users while making OpenAI an e-commerce platform When you ask ChatGPT what sneakers are best for trail running,…
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Instagram co-founder: Zuckerberg saw us as a ‘threat’ to Facebook
When Instagram was acquired for $1 billion in 2012, co-founder Kevin Systrom believed that joining Facebook would help Instagram’s “skyrocketing growth” reach even greater heights. In some ways, it did. Instagram now has billions of users and has since “generated many multiples of that price and then some,” Systrom said…
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This cheating app teaches all the wrong lessons about AI – but some of you still might use it
Cluely, an AI app that promises to help you “cheat at everything,” perhaps deserves some credit for honesty. If you believe that artificial intelligence is a platform that, in some ways, can help you game the system by delivering melifilous prose written by a large language model (LLM), stunning art…
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Glass bottles in, sand out – Disney World is crushing glass to make pathways and more in its latest sustainable move
When you consider the impact of technology and research at Disney Parks, discarded glass bottles are probably not the first thing that comes to mind. Perhaps you’re not seeing all that glass the way Disney does. Disney is now busy pulverizing a portion of those glass bottles; nearly 2,000 pounds…
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Apple removed ‘Available Now’ from the Apple Intelligence webpage, but it may not have been Apple’s choice
Apple has removed “Available Now” from its Apple Intelligence webpage The change comes after the BBB’s National Advertising Division recommended it clarify or remove availability details The issue is around the language of when Apple Intelligence features launched and the wait for forthcoming ones Apple has long said that there…
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Google is scrapping its planned changes for third-party cookies in Chrome
Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is officially over. In an update on Tuesday, Google Privacy Sandbox VP Anthony Chavez says the company has decided “to maintain our current approach to offering users third-party cookie choice in Chrome.” For years, critics have argued that Google’s Privacy Sandbox…
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