After rolling out Instant Checkout for Etsy purchases in September, OpenAI is expanding the feature to Walmart, allowing you to complete your purchase on the retail giant’s website from within ChatGPT.
Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu comes on the show to discuss this week’s OpenAI news and whether the AI industry will trend toward closed or open ecosystems.
OpenAI says Go has been expanded to 16 more countries in Asia, after launching in India and Indonesia earlier this year. The plan, which costs less than $10 a month, includes higher image generation limits and better access to its flagship AI model than ChatGPT’s free tier.
Ballooning liabilities have underwriters avoiding AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, the Financial Times reports. They’re spooked by the sheer volume of claims for things like wrongful death and copyright infringement, as well as enormous judgments against them. Investor funds are reportedly being considered to settle claims.
Analytics firm Appfigures told The Verge Sora was downloaded 627,000 times in its first week on Apple’s App Store. Sora is still invite-only, so it’s hard to tell how many people are actually using it, but its first week has been plagued with controversy after users generated a torrent of AI slop, deepfakes, and disturbing copyright violations.
Generative AI is going to remake the world, but first, it’s giving us apps.
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