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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🤖Slovenia's .si Domain is Booming After Trump's Super Intelligence Order
🍏 Apple is Locking Down Mac Disk Access Over AI Agents
🦾Atlas Has New Hands Without Pinkies
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Get Started with Dots in ChatGPT
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OpenAI is again experimenting with how its conversational AI assistant, ChatGPT, can help users as they shop online. On Thursday, the company announced the global launch of two new shopping features, including a way to virtually try on clothing and accessories and a new favoriting function that can help users save products they like for later reference.
Blu Dot surpasses 2,000% ROAS with self-serve CTV ads
Home furniture brand Blu Dot blew up on CTV with help from Roku Ads Manager. Here’s how:
After a test campaign reached 211,000 households and achieved 1,010% ROAS, the brand went all in to promote its annual sales event. It removed age and income constraints to expand reach and shifted budget to custom audiences and retargeting, where intent was strongest.
The results speak for themselves. As Blu Dot increased their investment by 10x, ROAS jumped to 2,308% and more page-view conversions surpassed 50,000.
“For CTV campaigns, Roku has been a top performer,” said Claire Folkestad, Paid Media Strategist, Blu Dot. “Comping to our other platforms, we have seen really strong ROAS… and highly efficient CPMs, lower than any other CTV partner we've worked with.”
Using Roku Ads Manager, the campaign moved from a pilot to a permanent performance engine for the brand.
Slovenia just got handed the .ai boom's sequel, and nobody planned it. Registry SI told the BBC that .si registrations jumped 2,199% in September after an executive order required federal agencies to call AI super intelligence instead. Roughly 11,000 addresses landed on September 30 alone. Wix, for its part, reportedly sees no meaningful uptick yet.
SoftBank has officially wired its final $10 BILLION into OpenAI Masa had to sell his ENTIRE Nvidia stake to fund the initial payment and was so leveraged it had to issue an $11.1B junk bond to wire this final check
Turns out letting an AI agent read your entire hard drive has consequences, and Apple noticed. The company is adding new controls around macOS Full Disk Access, saying agents have increased the risks of that permission. It follows an Inc. columnist's claim that Meta's Muse app knew his private messages, which Meta disputes, plus a reported ChatGPT Mac flaw.
Boston Dynamics has given its Atlas robot a new pair of hands. But not just any hands. These hands drop the pinkies and only keep four fingers. The team decided to tape down their own pinkies to see what they'd miss.
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AI Tutorial
How to Get Started with Dots in ChatGPT
Note: Dots is available to Pro and Business Premium users only, for now.
Open Dots in ChatGPT and follow the introduction. (You can create your dot only in the ChatGPT desktop app or in ChatGPT on desktop web.)
Connect apps such as email, calendar, and files so your dot can access their information and tools.
On mobile, open your dot's profile and go to Customize → Plugins.
You can also connect your computer from your dot's profile if you want your dot to work with local files, code, and apps.
After creating your dot, describe what you want it to do and provide the details it needs. You can ask it to review your calendar, research a topic, or remind you about something later.
Reply in the conversation if you need to add information or change the request. To attach a file or photo, select + in the conversation.
Dots start with built-in rules for when to act independently and when to ask for approval. On mobile, open Customize → Custom rules to review the defaults or add your own.
For each rule, choose whether your dot should act without asking, act if pre-approved, ask before acting, or hand off to you.
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