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AI Shopping Has Outrun Its Plumbing, Says Payments Expert

Internet Retailing

"Meta’s Muse has hit five million downloads in its first 22 days. Muse is built to understand goals of users and to perform tasks on their behalf – including paying for items. It has integrated Stripe’s Link payment system, with Shop Pay support also on the cards. OpenAI has announced the launch of its rival Dots agent, which performs similar functionality – and there are signs that it is preparing a payment product called ChatGPT wallet, which would let users store payment cards for use while carrying out tasks."

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OpenAI Debuts Dots AI Agents in Challenge to Meta’s Popular Muse Agent [Video]

Yahoo Finance

"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman launched the company's newest product: Dots. A high-powered AI agent, Dots is designed to perform tasks for you over long periods via connections to 4,000 apps via ChatGPT. In another example, OpenAI says an early tester's Dot saw that they didn't submit an invoice for a publication. The Dot then set up the invoice and submitted it after getting the tester's approval. Unlike Meta, which is marketing Muse toward the consumer market, OpenAI is angling for the enterprise space."

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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Financial Services

FStech

"OpenAI has announced the release of its latest specialised professional solution, ChatGPT for Financial Services, which combines financial data with its most advanced GPT-6 Astra model. The tool is designed to help teams within financial services to develop research, financial models, and customised client materials. It has built-in financial data from a variety of partners, OpenAI said, including PitchBook, LSEG News, and Crunchbase."

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ChatGPT Can Now Look at Your Bank Account, Here’s What It Can Do

MSN

"OpenAI has rolled out a new personal finance feature inside ChatGPT. You can now connect bank accounts, credit cards and investment accounts directly to ChatGPT, and it'll help you make sense of your money. For now, it's only for Pro users in the US. Plus users get it later, eventually it will be open up to everyone. ChatGPT shows you a dashboard of where your money is going—spending, investments, active subscriptions and upcoming payments, all in one place. It connects to more than 12,000 institutions through Plaid."

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Plaid: What ChatGPT’s New Experience Signals for Digital Finance

Plaid

"OpenAI introduced a preview of a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT, powered by Plaid. Pro users in the U.S. can now connect their financial accounts with Plaid and get real-time answers and insights tailored to their actual financial picture, beyond generic guidance and information on best practices."

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OpenAI Drops Plan for Direct Checkout Inside ChatGPT

The Keyword

"OpenAI is halting plans to support direct product checkout inside ChatGPT, according to The Information. The report says low buying activity inside ChatGPT is a major reason for the change. Internal findings suggest users often search for products but rarely complete purchases in ChatGPT. Technical hurdles, such as real-time product data synchronization across millions of retailers, made in-chat purchases difficult to scale. Fraud prevention further complicated efforts to run a full e-commerce checkout directly inside ChatGPT."

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OpenAI Working on Payment Checkout System Within ChatGPT, FT Reports

Reuters

"OpenAI is planning to take a cut from online product sales made through ChatGPT by integrating a payment checkout system into the chatbot, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing multiple people familiar with the proposals. Merchants that fulfill orders through the payment system will pay a commission to OpenAI, the report said."

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