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🤖 OpenAI Adds New Shopping Feature to ChatGPT
PLUS: China’s Plan to Achieve “AI Self-Sufficiency” by 2030
James Roesser
April 29, 2025
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In today’s Daily Report:
🛒OpenAI Adds New Shopping Feature to ChatGPT
🇨🇳China’s Plan to Achieve “AI Self-Sufficiency” by 2030
🛠Trending Tools
🥪Brief Bites
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
OPENAI
🛒OpenAI Adds New Shopping Feature to ChatGPT
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OpenAI just announced four new upgrades to ChatGPT search that enable it to quickly, directly, and accurately generate more up-to-date outputs.
Key Details:
Shopping: You can now find, compare, and buy products directly within ChatGPT, with the ability to generate curated customer reviews.
Trending Lookups: ChatGPT can now display the most relevant search queries related to breaking news, trending topics, or emerging interests.
Search in WhatsApp: You can now send a WhatsApp message to 1-800-ChatGPT (i.e., +1-800-242-8478) to receive live sports scores.
Improved Citations: ChatGPT can now provide direct links to relevant sources when generating outputs, allowing you to verify any information within the outputs.
Why It’s Important:
These four new upgrades to ChatGPT search are rolling out to Free, Plus, and Pro users over the next few days.
“Product results are chosen independently and aren’t ads,” said Adam Fry, Product Lead for ChatGPT search. He also mentioned that Free, Plus, and Pro users already perform over a billion search queries per week related to shopping categories like beauty and electronics.
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THE AI COLD WAR
🇨🇳China’s Plan to Achieve “AI Self-Sufficiency” by 2030
The President of China, Xi Jinping, plans to spend roughly $275 billion over the next five years to achieve “AI Self-Sufficiency.”
Key Details:
The money will be directed into three main areas:
AI Talent Pipelines: Establish AI Curriculums and AI Interdisciplinary Programs within educational institutions to cultivate a robust AI-centric workforce.
Advanced AI Chip Developments: Build cutting-edge semiconductor technologies with a 3nm process, which offers higher transistor density with more computational power and faster processing speeds.
Domestic AI Software Ecosystems: Develop advanced AI models with multimodal capabilities that contain frameworks like Mixture of Experts (MoE) and Reinforcement Learning (RL).
Why It’s Important:
The Premier of China, Li Qiang, emphasized the desire to achieve “Full-Stack AI Autonomy” by 2030, with complete internal supply chains for critical AI technologies.
China’s push for “AI Self-Sufficiency” is deeply rooted in the strategic imperative to secure technological independence in an era of geopolitical tension with the U.S.
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🥪BRIEF BITES
Digital Publisher Ziff Davis filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for relentlessly reproducing exact copies of articles from Mashable, PCMag, and Lifehacker.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published “The Urgency of Interpretability,” which outlines why we should learn how AI Systems choose to generate specific outputs.
Microsoft finally rolled out “Recall,” an AI-powered feature that automatically captures screenshots every few seconds to help you remember anything you’ve done on your Copilot+ PC.
Chinese Tech Giant Alibaba released “Qwen3,” a family of open-source multimodal AI models with hybrid reasoning capabilities across text, images, audio, video, and code.
💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Capital Rx (Remote): Data Engineer Intern, Summer 2025
Amazon (San Francisco, CA): Data Scientist, Entry-Level
OpenAI (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineer, Data Acquisition, Mid-Level
Datadog (New York, NY): Staff Applied Scientist, Senior-Level
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