Author: Awais

OpenAI is backing away from putting checkout directly inside ChatGPT. Instead, purchases will shift to retailer apps that connect to ChatGPT, The Information reported. Why we care. ChatGPT aims to be more than a discovery engine. Right now, though, product discovery inside ChatGPT is gaining traction faster than purchases. That suggests AI-powered shopping is only influencing the consideration stage (at least for now), not driving conversions. What happened. OpenAI had planned to let shoppers buy products directly from listings in ChatGPT search results. Instead, an OpenAI spokesperson said that Instant Checkout is moving to Apps, where purchases happen inside connected…

arXiv:2603.05299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models show that simple autoregressive training can yield scalable and coherent generation, but extending this paradigm to speech remains challenging due to the entanglement of semantic and acoustic information. Most existing speech language models rely on text supervision, hierarchical token streams, or complex hybrid architectures, departing from the single-stream generative pretraining paradigm that has proven effective in text. In this work, we introduce WavSLM, a speech language model trained by quantizing and distilling self-supervised WavLM representations into a single codebook and optimizing an autoregressive next-chunk prediction objective. WavSLM jointly models semantic and acoustic…

5 Strategic questions social listening research can answerThe fastest way to make listening research useful is to stop trying to listen to everything. Start with a question that matters to a real decision: a campaign, a launch, a positioning shift, a competitor narrative you need to address.What follows is a reusable framework you can apply across marketing campaigns, product moments, and brand positioning. Pick one question, pull relevant conversations, and you’ll extract meaningful insights without getting buried in noise.What problem are customers actually trying to solve?People rarely buy what you think you’re selling. They choose products to fix a specific…

A Pattern Across Teams forming across engineering teams that adopted AI coding tools in the last year. The first month is euphoric. Velocity doubles, features ship faster, stakeholders are thrilled. By month three, a different metric starts climbing: the time it takes to safely change anything that was generated. The code itself keeps getting better. Improved models, more correct, more complete, larger context. And yet the teams generating the most code are increasingly the ones requesting the most rewrites. It stops making sense until you look at structure. A developer opens a module that was generated in a single AI…

When ChatGPT launched, Zapier did what most companies did: shared it in Slack, called it cool, moved on. No mandates, no urgency. Just “hey, this might be interesting for your roadmap.” Then GPT-4 dropped six months later—and everything changed.In a recent episode of the Modern CTO podcast with Joel Beasley, Zapier CEO Wade Foster shared how a company-wide “code red” and week-long hackathon jumped AI adoption from 10% to 50% in just one week.The secret? Get everyone’s hands on the keyboard. Fear fades when people actually build with these tools.Table of contentsHow one week changed everythingWhen the leap from GPT-3.5…

Welcome to Deep Dish, a weekly roundup of food and entertainment news. Last time we uncovered Sam Smith’s secret food Instagram.Marketing has gotten weirder. Movies used to be promoted with, I don’t know, billboards or whatever. Now, A24 is opening up wedding chapels for the new Zendaya vehicle. Did you see the Brat credit cards? Did you get one? David, the protein bar company, is sending people vibrators—I would have killed to listen in on that marketing pitch.Spectacle, stunt, embarrassment, and entertainment have all become enmeshed in this new, dystopian advertising landscape. That’s why I was more than a little…

Google’s AI Mode is increasingly citing Google itself — and often sending users back to another Google search, according to new SE Ranking research. Why we care. AI search is meant to surface the best sources on the web. If Google increasingly cites itself, you may see fewer direct links and less traffic as more users stay inside Google. The details. Google.com was the most cited source in AI Mode answers, accounting for 17.42% of all citations, SE Ranking found. That makes Google.com the most referenced domain — more than the next six domains combined: YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Amazon, Indeed,…

This vegan chili recipe is a meatless version of the weeknight classic that packs a wealth of comfort and flavor. In place of the usual ground meat, a plethora of beans steps in to provide bulk, making the soup seem just as hearty as the original. You can use three cans of any bean of your choice here: chickpeas, kidney beans, white beans, black beans, pinto beans—the world is your oyster.And to make up for the beefy, braised flavors that meat provides, cocoa powder (an ingredient commonly used in chili con carne) provides bittersweet depth. Mingling with bell peppers, chipotle…

arXiv:2603.05152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has achieved remarkable progress in novel view synthesis. However, accurately reconstructing glossy surfaces under complex illumination remains challenging, particularly in scenes with strong specular reflections and multi-surface interreflections. To address this issue, we propose SSR-GS, a specular reflection modeling framework for glossy surface reconstruction. Specifically, we introduce a prefiltered Mip-Cubemap to model direct specular reflections efficiently, and propose an IndiASG module to capture indirect specular reflections. Furthermore, we design Visual Geometry Priors (VGP) that couple a reflection-aware visual prior via a reflection score (RS) to downweight the photometric…

Real-time monitoring is not about staring at dashboards all day. It is about choosing a few high-signal inputs that tell you what is changing, why it is changing, and what to do next.You want actionable insights, not a bigger pile of charts. Real-time analytics provides immediate insights and detailed insights into audience behaviors and campaign performance, allowing you to understand what matters most as it happens.Attention and momentum signalsStart with attention, but measure it like an operator, not a spectator. Basic volume matters, yet the shape of the curve matters more.Top teams watch mentions velocity, trending keywords and hashtags, and…