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2026-10-02

How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out

Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.

Source: OpenAI Blog

Top Stories

Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.

The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.

Read more at TechCrunch AI

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president

President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.

Read more at TechCrunch AI

ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you

OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.

Read more at TechCrunch AI

Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses

The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.

Read more at TechCrunch AI

The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer Two months after OpenAI’s agents hacked into the computers of AI company Hugging Face,…

Read more at MIT Tech Review

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“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer — MIT Tech Review

Heavy-Tailed Memory Traces in Long-Horizon Language Agents — arXiv AI (cs.AI)

When Do Causal World Models Help Modular LLM Agents — arXiv AI (cs.AI)

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