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In today's Techpresso:

🛒 OpenAI adds shopping to ChatGPT

🛰️ Amazon launches its first satellites to rival Starlink

🏛️ Amazon denies tariff label plans after White House criticism

🫠 Reddit users ‘psychologically manipulated’ by unauthorized AI experiment

👀 Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

🤖 Alibaba unveils Qwen 3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models

🎁 + 13 other news you might like

🔮 + 1 handpicked research papers and tools

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🛒 OpenAI adds shopping to ChatGPT LINK
  • OpenAI has integrated e-commerce functions into ChatGPT Search, letting users discover items and link out to merchant websites for purchasing, available to everyone using the service.
  • The chatbot provides personalized item suggestions by analyzing user preferences, chat history, and product assessments gathered from various online sources like Reddit and publishers.
  • Resembling Google Shopping, the interface presents purchase options from different retailers and uniquely tailors future buying advice based on conversational context about preferred styles or stores.
🛰️ Amazon launches its first satellites to rival Starlink LINK
  • Amazon successfully sent its first prototype Kuiper internet satellites into low-Earth orbit aboard a ULA Atlas V rocket, initiating the deployment of its large broadband constellation.
  • These initial orbital units are confirmed active and communicating properly with ground systems, targeting the start of customer internet service availability later this current year for some regions.
  • The company's ambitious project aims to launch over three thousand spacecraft eventually to rival Starlink, facing a regulatory deadline to deploy half its network by mid-2026.
🏛️ Amazon denies tariff label plans after White House criticism LINK
  • The White House condemned Amazon after news emerged the retailer reportedly intended to display how much specific tariffs contribute to the final cost of items sold online.
  • A presidential spokesperson labeled the alleged scheme a “hostile and political act,” questioning why similar cost details were absent during previous periods of high inflation under another administration.
  • The e-commerce company subsequently explained this tariff cost display was only ever considered for its budget shopping service, Amazon Haul, and has not been activated anywhere.
🫠 Reddit users ‘psychologically manipulated’ by unauthorized AI experiment LINK
  • Researchers secretly conducted an unapproved study on the r/changemyview subreddit, deploying artificial intelligence comments to gauge the persuasive power of language models on unsuspecting members.
  • The academics personalized large language model replies using profile details inferred from participants' posting history, adopting various fabricated identities to engage in debates on the popular forum.
  • Moderators denounced the unauthorized research as psychological manipulation, filed a formal complaint with the university, and suspended the involved accounts for violating rules regarding bots and disclosure.
👀 Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI LINK
  • Duolingo revealed plans to progressively stop using contract workers for jobs that artificial intelligence is now competent enough to perform, according to its chief executive.
  • This operational change aligns with a new "AI-first" direction where teams must explore automation possibilities thoroughly before requesting additional human resources for tasks.
  • The company's leader clarified the goal is accelerating educational content generation for learners through technology, not displacing its permanent workforce with automated systems.
🤖 Alibaba unveils Qwen 3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models LINK
  • Chinese technology giant Alibaba has introduced Qwen 3, a new series of artificial intelligence systems, with most being openly available and varying significantly in complexity.
  • These advanced language models feature hybrid reasoning capabilities, support numerous global languages, and were trained on an extensive dataset containing nearly 36 trillion tokens.
  • The publicly accessible Qwen3-32B version demonstrates strong benchmark results, outperforming DeepSeek R1 and some OpenAI offerings, and is obtainable via platforms like Hugging Face.

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Other news & articles you might like

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  • Kickstarter adds a 'tariff manager' to let creators add surcharges to previously funded projects LINK
  • Temu adds ‘import charges’ after Trump tariffs LINK
  • Key Apple supplier says ’empty shelves’ likely within two months as tariffs bite LINK
  • Google announces a special Android event ahead of I/O LINK
  • WhatsApp is working on video and voice calls on the web LINK
  • Marks & Spencer breach linked to Scattered Spider ransomware attack LINK
  • GPUs are so bulky now that Asus is using gyroscopes to detect sagging LINK
  • Nvidia releases a big hotfix driver to address sea of issues plaguing its newest GPUs LINK
  • After quitting phones in 2021, LG will soon pull the plug on its update servers LINK
  • Oracle engineers caused days-long software outage at U.S. hospitals LINK
  • Hugging Face releases a 3D-printed robotic arm starting at $100 LINK
  • Kosmos 482: 1,000-pound Soviet Venus probe could crash to earth after 53 years LINK

Latest research and tools

ArkFlow: a high-performance stream processing engine handling data from various sources like Kafka, MQTT, HTTP, and files. LINK
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