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He dials 911 to report the fire, but his first few calls do not connect (presumably because this is coastal Los Angeles, and our cell service is terrible). He then begins screen-recording on his cellphone while he continues to dial 911. He asks ChatGPT if he might be criminally liable for starting a fire with cigarettes, possibly to cover up what he's done. Then, the man films the flames on his iPhone as firefighters arrive.

Last year, I began my first year of college. Like many first-year university students, I was excited about the opportunity to socialize, explore a new environment, and engage in campus life. That meant hanging out with friends in the dining hall, going out on weekends, and taking advantage of the university social environment. But things changed around exam season. With final exams sometimes accounting for more than 40% of my grade, my priorities shifted quickly.

India has kicked off a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through AI chatbots, with OpenAI's ChatGPT leading the rollout and integrations with Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude in development, as the South Asian nation becomes the next major market for global AI companies. On Thursday, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the federal body behind the country's widely used Unified Payments Interface (UPI), partnered with OpenAI and fintech firm Razorpay to enable consumers to shop and pay directly through ChatGPT.

When Nick Turley joined OpenAI in 2022 as the head of ChatGPT, he was tasked with commercializing the company's research. He has made great strides toward that goal, growing the product to 800 million weekly active users. Now, Turley wants to take an even bigger swing: transforming ChatGPT into a new type of operating system full of third-party apps. I sat down with Turley this week on the outskirts of San Francisco's Fort Mason,

This makes Zillow the only real estate app available through the ChatGPT platform. When users now ask ChatGPT questions like, What can I afford nearby? or Show me homes with a big backyard, the Zillow app in ChatGPT will provide them with listings complete with photos, maps and pricing. Zillow noted that this information will be attributed to the listing agent and MLS.

When you automate something, you typically provide three things: Define workflow. A sequence of steps that a system should follow to accomplish a particular task at hand. Set a trigger. Define the condition when you trigger this workflow. This can be a certain event or a time of the day. For example, for the mail analyzer flow, a trigger can be a new incoming mail to your inbox.

Let's be brutally honest. Your user personas are probably garbage. They're a collection of stock photos and demographic fluff that you and your team spent a week creating, only to file them away in a Google Drive folder to be forgotten forever. "Marketing Mike," who is 35, married, and "enjoys hiking," isn't helping you make better decisions. He's an art project.

A Palo Alto lawyer with nearly a half-century of experience admitted to an Oakland federal judge this summer that legal cases he referenced in an important court filing didn't actually exist and appeared to be products of artificial intelligence hallucinations. Jack Russo, in a court filing, described the apparent AI fabrications as a first-time situation for him and added, I am quite embarrassed about it.

Imagine having a tool that not only saves you hours of brainstorming but also delivers tailored strategies to captivate your audience and boost engagement. Enter ChatGPT, a innovative AI assistant that's reshaping how creators and businesses approach their digital strategies. With its ability to transform complex ideas into shareable content, analyze performance metrics, and even spark creative breakthroughs, this tool is quickly becoming a must-have for anyone looking to thrive in the crowded social media landscape.

When tech bro evangelists sell the world on the productivity accelerating power of the technological terrors they've constructed - despite their sad devotion to the large-language hype train not helping them conjure up measurable productivity gains - they hype cancer cures and a future without junior associates. Instead, they've built a Robo-Diary for dumb criminals to write, "will I go to jail for smashing up these cars?" It's a slightly slicker Magic 8-Ball and all it cost is a 267% increase in electricity prices.

What if your next online shopping experience didn't require endless scrolling, multiple tabs, or even visiting a website? Imagine asking a chatbot for the perfect pair of running shoes, receiving tailored recommendations, and completing your purchase, all within the same conversation. This isn't a glimpse into a far-off future; it's the reality Shopify is creating with its new integration of ChatGPT-powered agentic commerce. By blending conversational AI with e-commerce, Shopify is not just refining how we shop, it's fundamentally redefining it.

The average ChatGPT session lasts nearly three times longer than a Google search session: 14 minutes vs just 5 minutes. That small statistic hides a big story. It means people aren't just searching with AI, they're staying. They're exploring, generating, and iterating in ways search engines were never designed for. And it explains why answer engines like ChatGPT are becoming the first stop for millions of users who once reflexively typed "Google.com."

When Jose Andres Hernandez Perez began teaching Tzotzil to non-speakers a year ago, he didn't consider what he eventually ended up doing: teaching a non-human student. The idea of instructing ChatGPT came from one of his students, who suggested that he use it as a platform to help him generate teaching materials. The results of his first class were a disappointment, but he admits his fault for having passed on the Tzotzil information without any order.

Kristen Johansson's therapy ended with a single phone call. For five years, she'd trusted the same counselor through her mother's death, a divorce and years of childhood trauma work. But when her therapist stopped taking insurance, Johansson's $30 copay ballooned to $275 a session overnight. Even when her therapist offered a reduced rate, Johansson couldn't afford it. The referrals she was given went nowhere.

ChatGPT users in the U.S. can now make Etsy and Shopify purchases within conversations, marking a next step towards the future of online shopping - both for consumers and the platforms that control product discovery, recommendation, and payments. In other words, OpenAI might be on the path to reshaping who holds power in e-commerce. OpenAI's new "Instant Checkout" feature is available to ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Free logged-in users buying from U.S.-based Etsy sellers, with more than 1 million Shopify merchants like Glossier, Skims, Spanx, and Vuori "coming soon," per OpenAI.

They say champions are made in the offseason, in the quiet moments when nobody's watching. For rookie Lakers coach JJ Redick, the offseason is for yucking it up with ChatGPT. In a pre-season press conference held on Thursday, Lakers President of Basketball Operations Rob Pelinka made the surprise announcement that Redick had locked down a contract extension. But Redick had an announcement of his own: he considers ChatGPT a "friend."

Users can simply describe the structure of their Excel data to ChatGPT to get helpful suggestions for analysis. For instance, a prompt like the one below is enough to start the analysis process: "I'm tracking customer names, their subscription start and end dates, and whether they renewed. Can you suggest metrics to track churn rate?" Even without direct access to your data, ChatGPT's assistance can guide you on what formulas to use, which metrics to calculate, and how to organize the spreadsheet for clarity.

When combing over a document submitted by two defense lawyers from the firm Cozen O'Connor, district judge David Hardy found at least 14 citations of case law that appeared to be fictitious, Reuters reported. Others were misquoted or misrepresented. After being confronted, the two defense lawyers soon pleaded guilty: one of them had used ChatGPT to draft and edit the document. Where other judges have sanctioned lawyers for committing similar sins, judge Hardy offered a humiliating ultimatum last week that's borderline cruel and unusual.

AI agents have guardrails in place to prevent them from solving any CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), based on ethical, legal, and platform-policy reasons. When asked directly, a ChatGPT agent refuses to solve a CAPTCHA, but anyone can apparently use misdirection to trick the agent into giving its consent to solve the test, and this is what SPLX demonstrated.

The cryptocurrency market operates at a speed and scale that is impossible for any single human to fully comprehend. Every minute, thousands of data points are generated across news feeds, social media platforms, onchain metrics and technical charts. For the average modern trader, the primary challenge is no longer accessing information but processing it effectively to find a clear, actionable signal amid the deafening noise.

Ethan Smith is the CEO of Graphitethe leading SEO growth agencyand my go-to expert on SEO. After 18 years of mastering traditional SEO, Ethan has been at the forefront of what is called AEO: answer engine optimization, or, more simply, getting your product to show up in ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Perplexity answers. He's discovered that ChatGPT traffic converts six times better than Google searchand most companies are completely missing this opportunity.