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AI News Brief: OpenAI announced two new global shopping features in ChatGPT, letting its conversational AI assistant dive deeper into helping users shop online. The first is ‘Virtual Try-On,’ where users upload a selfie or full-body photo to visualize how clothing or accessories would look on them, with a new ‘Try On’ button appearing on shopping results pages; users can also upload a photo of an item (like a screenshot from a website) and ask ChatGPT to simulate the try-on.

AI News Flash: A month before the US military struck Venezuela and captured President Maduro in January 2026, Trump reportedly had an undisclosed meeting with Musk, about seven months after Musk left his role at DOGE, according to TIME magazine. During the meeting, Trump reportedly ‘spent hours’ talking with Musk’s Grok chatbot, asking how Venezuelans would react if Maduro were captured.

AI news brief: Reddit announced it will end support for RSS feeds on November 13, citing RSS becoming a common channel for large-scale scraping and automated abuse. The move has drawn backlash from open-web advocates — RSS rose during the blogging era as a standardized way for users to subscribe to site updates, Google once ran the most popular RSS service before shutting it down in 2013, and the market shifted to independent apps like Feedly.

AI News Brief: ElevenLabs announced today that employees can sell a portion of their vested shares at a $22 billion valuation, exactly double the $11 billion valuation set during its $500 million raise back in February. This employee share sale is happening through a $300 million tender offer led by institutional investors Wellington and T. Rowe Price, the kind of big, long-term investors who typically plan to keep holding shares even after a company goes public.

AI news brief: At Dev Day, OpenAI quietly rolled out a ‘Decisions API,’ revealed by CEO Sam Altman almost as an aside. The concept is similar to Jev, the model TypeSafe AI launched earlier this month — a ‘super-classifier’ built on top of an LLM that lets developers hand it a set of options and get back fast, cheap, probability-based outputs.

AI News Brief: Hardware design AI startup Flow Engineering announced Wednesday it closed a $50M Series B at a $750M valuation. The round was led by Valar Equity Partners founder Antonio Gracias (known for backing Elon Musk’s companies, especially SpaceX) and Atreides Management founder…

AI News Flash: Alphabet’s Google has officially launched its next-generation AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, built for coding, research, and writing tasks, but the company is putting special emphasis on its cybersecurity capabilities. Argon is currently only available through Google’s security initiative, the ‘Fairwind Program,’ to select cybersecurity partners rather than a public release. The model is specifically trained for defensive security work…

AI News Brief: Airbnb is moving on two fronts at once — strengthening its offline competitiveness against hotels, while doubling down on AI to help travelers explore trips online. In its fall product update, Airbnb expands on the app services it launched last year, adding food delivery, laundry service, and baby gear rental, while piloting ski and boat rentals in select regions and expanding grocery delivery coverage. The second major feature is AI search…

AI News Brief: Wabi, the AI startup that let anyone build apps with text prompts, is making a modest pivot as demand grows for AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct. The company announced this week that Wabi will transform into a kind of AI messaging assistant, while still keeping its ability to help users build apps that get things done. Founder Eugenia Kuyda (who previously started the AI companion startup Replika) describes this new version, Wabi 2.0, as a personal agent that does things for you and builds the interface you need on the fly.

AI news brief: At its Dev Day conference in San Francisco, OpenAI announced a slate of new ChatGPT features aimed squarely at office workers, clearly moving into the productivity software market Microsoft built its business on. The headline feature is Space, a shared workspace built into ChatGPT where coworkers can collaborate on tasks alongside the chatbot and their own Dots (OpenAI’s new AI agent personas that can act on a user’s behalf)…