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OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT into the shopping aisle, rolling out a feature that lets users virtually try on clothing using their own photos and save items to a personal Favorites library. It's a meaningful push into e-commerce territory, and a signal that the company sees AI assistants as more than just answer engines.
Meanwhile, Google is taking a longer view on space-based computing, acknowledging that SpaceX's Starship would need to launch roughly sixteen hundred times before orbiting data centers become commercially viable. Google did send its first advanced chip into orbit as a proof of concept, but that number puts a sharp frame around just how far off the dream remains.
And Meta is disputing claims that its Muse AI assistant read a journalist's private messages without consent. Communications chief Andy Stone says accessing Messages requires two separate user-controlled permissions, pushing back on the report directly. It's the kind of dispute that matters less for who's technically right and more for what it tells us about how much users actually understand what they've agreed to.
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