The AI-powered shopping rivalry is heating up as Google and OpenAI launch new features to help you buy things while interacting with their chatbots. Now, Google is teaming up with Gap Inc to allow its Gemini AI assistant to purchase clothes on your behalf from any of its stores, which include Gap, Old Navy, Banana […]

Financial Times:
Arm unveils its own AI chip called the AGI CPU, a departure from its traditional role as a designer of chips for others; Meta and OpenAI will be early customers  —  SoftBank-owned tech group secures Meta and OpenAI as first customers of its long-awaited new AI processor

Late Night with Conan O’Brien writers Michael Koman and Andrew Weinberg pay homage to Chuck Norris the only way they know how

CoinDesk:
Circle shares fell as much as 18%, and Coinbase dropped about 8%, after a draft of the US Clarity Act raised the prospect of strict limits on stablecoin yield  —  The latest version of the Clarity Act is pressuring stocks as it would restrict stablecoin rewards.  —  What to know:

It takes a week to switch phones. First, there's the technical process of moving eSIMs across devices, which takes either a few minutes (if you're switching from one Android phone to another) or two days, a half-dozen calls to Verizon, a verification text message sent to your mom, and approximately 11,000 restarts of your phone […]