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Shopify Reports 7× Surge in AI-Driven Traffic
Shopify says artificial intelligence (AI) is now driving record levels of shopping activity, with traffic to its merchants’ stores up sevenfold since January and AI-attributed orders rising elevenfold, claiming it marks the start of a new “agentic commerce” era. Shopify’s AI Milestone Announced Alongside Strong Financials These latest figures were unveiled on 4 November 2025 during Shopify’s…
How To Get The Most From WhatsApp Groups
In this Tech Insight, we look at how to get the most from WhatsApp groups by using all their key features to make chats more organised, productive, and secure for both organisers and members. Why WhatsApp Groups Matter More Than Ever WhatsApp has become the world’s primary messaging platform, used by over 2.9 billion people…
Amazon Targets Perplexity Over AI Shopping Assistant Comet
Amazon has accused AI startup Perplexity of illegally accessing its e-commerce systems through its agentic shopping assistant, Comet, marking one of the first major legal tests of how autonomous AI tools interact with major online platforms. Perplexity and Comet Perplexity is a fast-growing Silicon Valley AI company valued at around $18 billion and known for…
Microsoft’s Fake Marketplace Reveals AI Agents Still Struggle
Microsoft has built a synthetic online marketplace to stress test AI agents in realistic buying and selling scenarios, but the early results appear to have revealed how fragile even the most advanced models remain when faced with complex, competitive environments. Why Microsoft Built A Fake Marketplace Magentic Marketplace is Microsoft’s new open source simulation environment…
Microsoft’s ‘Humanist Superintelligence’ For Medical Diagnosis
Microsoft has launched a new research division called the MAI Superintelligence Team, aiming to build artificial intelligence systems that surpass human capability in specific fields, beginning with medical diagnostics. AI For “Superhuman” Performance in Defined Area The new team sits within Microsoft AI and is led by Mustafa Suleyman, the company’s AI chief, with Karen…
Pollinger’s Productivity : November 2025
ChatGPT Atlas Launches OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser with ChatGPT built directly into its core. Launched on 21 October 2025 for macOS (with Windows and mobile versions coming soon), Atlas aims to make the browsing experience conversational. Instead of switching between tabs and searches, users can ask questions, summarise pages, and…
Boost Productivity with Outlook’s Email Highlighting Features
When you highlight text in an email in Outlook, you’ll notice the Mini Toolbar appears above the highlighted text, and when you right-click, you’ll see additional options that let you leverage powerful features to streamline your workflow, including: – Explain in more detail: Get more information on the highlighted text using Copilot, Outlook’s AI-powered assistant.–…
OpenAI Unveils Aardvark, Its AI Security Researcher
OpenAI has introduced Aardvark, an autonomous security agent powered by GPT-5 that scans codebases to detect and fix software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Described as “an agentic security researcher,” Aardvark continuously analyses repositories, monitors commits, and tests code in sandboxed environments to validate real-world exploitability. It then proposes human-reviewable patches using OpenAI’s Codex system. OpenAI…
OpenAI Completes Shift Into For-Profit Company
OpenAI has now finished converting itself into a for-profit public benefit corporation, while keeping a mission-led foundation on top, in what may be the most important restructuring so far in the commercial AI race. Started As Non-Profit OpenAI was originally founded (back in 2015) as a non-profit research lab with a stated mission to ensure…
WhatsApp Introduces Passkey-Encrypted Backups
WhatsApp is rolling out passkey-encrypted backups, thereby letting users protect and recover their chat history using their face, fingerprint, or device screen lock instead of remembering a long password or storing a 64-digit recovery key. A Major Step in WhatsApp’s Encryption Journey WhatsApp has announced a new feature that allows users to encrypt their chat…
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