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Shopify’s Canvas moves Sidekick into a whole-store design workspace, using real theme code and live previews. But the first rollout excludes third-party themes, translations, Markets, app blocks and theme updates, which limits who can adopt it now.
Audible announced staged US and UK beta features for audiobooks. Character Guide is available on select titles now; Interactive Story rolls out this fall, while Visual Explorer is coming soon. The schedule and performance claims come from Audible.
ChatGPT now lets shoppers generate virtual try-on images for clothes and save products in a Favorites library. OpenAI says the feature uses Images 2.5; the preview cannot guarantee fit, and personal photos raise a privacy decision.
Google launched Guided Vision in Gemini Live on Android, adding camera-based spoken descriptions, follow-up questions, and verbal framing cues for low-vision and accessibility use cases. The company also drew a hard safety line: it is not for way
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast is positioned as the API’s fastest tier, with vendor claims of up to 8x faster token generation. The trade-offs are higher cost, low rate limits and no EU regional processing endpoint.
Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 keeps Sonnet 5 pricing while cutting latency and task cost, but its docs also warn developers about five breaking changes before upgrading.
OpenAI’s Agents API can run a browser in an OpenAI-hosted environment, but each new website origin needs approval before access. The change matters for agent workflows, testing, research and compliance boundaries.
ElevenLabs says a $300 million employee tender valued it at $22 billion as enterprise voice agents now drive most of its growth, according to the company.
WhatsApp said it is adding optional teen parental controls that alert parents when group activity changes and let them limit Meta AI use, while saying chats stay end-to-end encrypted.
Google says Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders through Fairwind while broader access waits for safety testing. The model is aimed at long-horizon coding and cybersecurity, but its benchmark claims are company-reported.
CBS News says the FTC confirmed an AI consumer-risk probe involving OpenAI and Anthropic. A 2023 FTC resolution explains its investigative powers. The agency’s next requests will show the inquiry’s scope.
Major AI companies signed a White House safety accord, but it remains voluntary and leaves auditor selection, board oversight and public disclosure inside the firms.
OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, a lower-cost model that the company says nears GPT-6 Astra on coding and agentic work. The published pricing tables show standard text tokens at one-fifth of Astra’s rates, with important deployment limits.