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ChatGPT now lets shoppers upload selfies or full-body photos to preview clothing and accessories, with a “Try On” button in results and support for item screenshots. A Favorites Library saves products and try-on images, powered by ChatGPT Images 2.5.
Shopify’s Canvas lets Sidekick edit a store’s actual theme files from chat, rather than a static preview, with changes rendered in real time. Launched October 1, 2026, it supports testing interactivity, animations, and responsive layouts as edits are made.
AWS’s Strands Decider 2B returns choices among predefined options with confidence scores, rather than generating free-form text, and runs locally at no cost. Built on Qen3.5-2B, it grew from Marc Brooker’s Jevbench-topping prototype.
Judge Amit Mehta dismissed antitrust suits from Chegg and Penske Media, ruling publishers’ expectation of search traffic—not an agreement—didn’t show Google unlawfully diverted users through AI Overviews. The Oct. 1 ruling said lawmakers, not antitrust law, should address the impact.
Photon reports 40,000+ developers, 10x revenue growth in four months, 5x higher messaging volume over the past month, and churn below 3%. The startup raised $4.5M in an October 2026 seed round co-led by Gradient and A*.
OpenAI’s new Dots agents are limited to $20/month Pro subscribers and above, excluding most of ChatGPT’s 1.2 billion users. Powered by GPT-6 Astra, they target complex work such as product QA, website design and portfolio rebalancing.
Satlyt’s software has flown on two demo missions, including one that ran Google DeepMind’s Gemma model and cut error-transmission data by more than 60%. The $8M-funded startup’s third mission launches Thursday aboard a SpaceX rocket.
Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says the spyware maker cannot technically see whom Graphite targets or what data it extracts. The firm dropped two Italian government contracts without investigating allegations involving journalists and activists, after WhatsApp reported more than 60 infections across 20+ countries.
Grokipedia is showing renewed activity after an August Lawfare report said no entry had changed in more than three months. Its v0.3 redesign adds featured and most-read article shelves and reorganizes live edits.
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says former board advisor Chris Degnan discussed joining rival Cognition while attending Factory meetings; Degnan denies sharing confidential information. Hours later, Degnan announced he was Cognition’s CRO after 11 years as Snowflake’s CRO.
Google is limiting Gemini 4 Argon’s early access to “trusted cyber defenders” after its September 30, 2026 debut. Already used for Google codebase migrations, it reportedly outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic models while safeguards against misuse and prompt injection are strengthened.
Flow’s AI agents connect CAD drawings with requirements, simulations, and testing data, targeting manual bottlenecks in hardware engineering. The San Francisco startup’s $50M round brings its valuation to $750M, with Anduril, Rivian, and Joby Aviation among its customers.
ElevenLabs’ latest $300 million employee tender offer, co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, doubles its valuation from $11 billion in February to $22 billion. The New York-London startup previously offered $100 million in September 2025.
Unveiled at Dev Day on Sept. 30, 2026, the API lets Luna choose from predefined options such as image categories or agent behaviors, targeting faster, cheaper software tasks. TypeSafe AI CEO Diogo Almeida called it “the beginning of the clone wars.”
Halide Mark III now offers continuous aperture selection from f/1.48 to f/4.0 on the iPhone 18 Pro, surpassing Apple’s four presets and competitors’ 10. The September 30 update also adds Dawn and Quicksilver film looks.
Meta says Muse needs both Full Disk Access and its Messages connector enabled, with three authorization steps and an app restart. Journalist Jason Aten disputes this, saying access was off and Muse may have read incoming notification banners.
Reddit will shut RSS feeds on Nov. 13, 2026, then end public API access by March 2027, citing AI-driven scraping and abuse. AI products will need commercial licenses, as “other revenue” reached $43 million in Q2, up 24% year over year.
Restate says AI agents are a strong fit for its durable-execution platform, which automatically recovers multi-step workflows after failures. Its $20M Series A, led by Singular, will fund hiring, engineering and a Bay Area office.