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ChatGPT teams up with PayPal to make it easier for you to buy stuff in chat

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Users will soon be able to use PayPal to pay for product recommendations made by OpenAI's ChatGPT. PayPal recently signed a contract with OpenAI to integrate the digital wallet into ChatGPT, reports CNBC . This will allow users to easily pay for the products they discover via the AI tool. The agreement allows PayPal users to make payments via ChatGPT merchants to list and sell their goods in ChatGPT.


Donald Trump Is the First AI Slop President

WIRED

How do AI videos end up on Donald Trump's social media accounts? President Donald Trump, a septuagenarian known for his general avoidance of keyboards and computers, has somehow become America's first generative AI president. The most infamous example of his experimentation with AI-generated videos came ahead of the No Kings protests earlier this month. In the clip, the president is decked out in full gear, piloting a fighter jet bearing "KING TRUMP" on its side. Instead of a traditional pilot's helmet, however, the president is wearing a literal crown, just in case the rest of the visuals were too subtle.


Zombie worms have gone missing

Popular Science

Biologists investigate the case of the lost'bone devourers' that feed on whale carcasses. Osedax is considered an ecosystem engineer. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. If you're leading a group of zombie apocalypse survivors, you don't want to lose sight of the horde of brain-hungry creatures trying to eat you. The same can be said if the zombie worm goes missing from the ocean floor.


AIhub monthly digest: October 2025 โ€“ energy supply challenges, wearable sensors, and atomic-scale simulations

AIHub

Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we attend AIES and ECAI, learn about policy design for two-sided platforms, discover how to balance speed and physical laws in atomic-scale simulations, and find out more about machine learning for chip design. October has been a busy month on the conference front. Over in Madrid, researchers gathered for the conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) . The event featured two keynote talks, panel discussions and poster sessions.


Nvidia becomes world's first 5tn company amid stock market and AI boom

The Guardian

Nvidia becomes world's first $5tn company amid stock market and AI boom Nvidia has become the world's first $5tn company, just three months after the Silicon Valley chipmaker was first to break through the barrier of $4tn in market value. In comparison, Nvidia's value is greater than the GDP of India, Japan and the United Kingdom, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Shortly after US stock markets opened on Wednesday, Nvidia's shares touched $207.86 with 24.3bn shares outstanding, putting its market cap at $5.05tn. Ravenous appetite for Nvidia's chips, seen as the most cutting edge in powering artificial intelligence products and software, is the main reason that the company's stock price has increased so rapidly since early 2023. The wider US stock market has reached multiple record highs this week, buoyed up by expansive investment in artificial intelligence.


Amazon Echo Studio (2nd Gen) and Echo Dot Max Review: Bigger Sound, Bigger Price

WIRED

The brand's best smart speakers get a new look and more power behind the sound and smarts. Updated design with easier buttons and tap controls. Has Alexa+ right away, no waiting list required. Smart-home hub built into both. Buttons can show oil stains from skin contact.


Character.ai to ban teens from talking to its AI chatbots

BBC News

Character.ai to ban teens from talking to its AI chatbots The platform, founded in 2021, is used by millions to talk to chatbots powered by artificial intelligence (AI). But it is facing several lawsuits in the US from parents, including one over the death of a teenager, with some branding it a clear and present danger to young people. Online safety campaigners have welcomed the move but said the feature should never have been available to children in the first place. Character.ai said it was making the changes after reports and feedback from regulators, safety experts, and parents, which have highlighted concerns about its chatbots' interactions with teens. Experts have previously warned the potential for AI chatbots to make things up, be overly-encouraging, and feign empathy can pose risks to young and vulnerable people.


The Download: Boosting AI's memory, and data centers' unhappy neighbors

MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI's ability to remember An AI model released by Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI's ability to "remember." The optical character recognition model works by extracting text from an image and turning it into machine-readable words. This is the same technology that powers scanner apps, translation of text in photos, and many accessibility tools. Researchers say the model's main innovation lies in how it processes information--specifically, how it stores and retrieves data. Improving how AI models "remember" could reduce how much computing power they need to run, thus mitigating AI's large (and growing) carbon footprint. The AI Hype Index: Data centers' neighbors are pivoting to power blackouts That's why we've created the AI Hype Index--a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry.


Superhuman's new AI suite fact-checks your life

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Superhuman's new AI suite is like a salesman, warehouse employee and manager all looking over your shoulder, correcting mistakes. You've probably heard of Grammarly, the AI spelling and grammar checker. But with a rebrand, a consolidation, and a new AI agent, Grammarly now fact-checks your business communications using what it knows about current context. It's difficult to describe this iteration of Grammarly, now renamed Superhuman, and its suite.


I customize Windows 11 in seconds with vibe-coded AI scripts. Here's how

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. You can now take advantage of this classic Windows scripting tool even if you have zero programming experience. AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free and simple yet powerful Windows scripting language. It doesn't get a lot of press these days, but Windows geeks used to love writing and swapping AHK scripts. You can learn AHK and write the scripts yourself if you want to--the AutoHotkey documentation is pretty good --or you could use an AI tool like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, etc. to do the work for you.