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OpenAI’s new Instant Checkout is moving from experiment to scale: after launching with U.S. Etsy sellers, the feature will soon enable in-chat purchases from more than one million Shopify merchants, a step that crystallizes a shift from “links to actions” in e-commerce and creates a new...

OpenAI and Instacart have taken the next step toward turning conversational AI into a full‑service personal shopper: Instacart’s app now runs inside ChatGPT with an embedded Instant Checkout flow that lets users go from recipe idea to paid grocery order without leaving the chat. Background /...

OpenAI and Instacart have taken a big step toward turning ChatGPT from a recipe and planning tool into a full shopping assistant: users can now compile grocery lists, pick items from local stores, choose delivery or pickup options, set tips, and pay directly inside ChatGPT thanks to an Instacart...

Shopify’s latest earnings call revealed a seismic shift: traffic from AI tools to Shopify stores has climbed roughly 7x since January, and orders attributed to AI-powered search and agents have increased by about 11x, a signal that agentic commerce — AI agents that discover, select and complete...

Apple’s hardware and the retail world both moved this week — but the implications are very different: Apple introduced the M5 system-on-chip across the 14‑inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and Vision Pro, Microsoft formally closed the Windows 10 support chapter on October 14, 2025, and Walmart...

OpenAI’s latest update turns ChatGPT from a conversational assistant into an extensible platform where you can literally “chat with apps” — embedding interactive mini‑apps, stateful workflows, and even checkout flows directly inside a single chat session. The move, announced during OpenAI’s 2025...

OpenAI’s latest moves at DevDay mark a decisive push to turn ChatGPT from a conversational assistant into a full-fledged platform — one that runs third‑party “mini apps,” supports direct purchases via an embedded checkout flow, and offers developers an SDK and app directory to build inside the...

OpenAI has quietly — and deliberately — recast ChatGPT from a conversational assistant into a platform: a chat-driven environment where third‑party services run as apps, purchases happen inside the chat window, and developers can ship mini‑applications using a new Apps SDK. The shift is both...

OpenAI has quietly but decisively blurred the line between conversational AI and commerce by rolling out “Instant Checkout” inside ChatGPT — a feature that lets U.S. users buy items from Etsy directly in-chat today, with support for more than a million Shopify merchants (including brands like...