🛍️ Shop Smarter with ChatGPT

In today’s email:

🛍️ ChatGPT is testing a new shopping feature! Ask it about products, and it’ll give you pictures, prices, and reviews—without any sneaky commissions

🖥️ Black Mirror’s eerie predictions are starting to look way too real. From AI chatbots replacing dead loved ones to robot dogs, the future of tech is starting to feel like an episode.

🌎 Want your street to look like a Dutch biking paradise? With a simple photo and some AI magic, you can Dutchify your block and add a touch of Amsterdam charm to your neighborhood.

Curious? Keep scrolling!

🛍️ ChatGPT Now Helps You Shop

As of April 28, 2025, OpenAI is experimenting with new ways to help you shop through ChatGPT. Now, when you ask ChatGPT about products like vacuums or espresso machines, it’ll show you pictures, pricing, reviews, and links to various retailers (but no commissions, so no secret side hustle for OpenAI). It’s designed to make shopping easier and faster—though it’s still a bit slow, taking up to 40 seconds to generate recommendations, and sometimes it links to some sketchy retailers. Classic, right?

Here’s the deal:

• ChatGPT’s shopping feature is being tested with fashion, beauty, home goods, and electronics.

• It doesn’t earn commissions, so the product links are all organic (no sneaky sponsored stuff).

• Instead of using a complex algorithm, ChatGPT chooses products based on how people talk about them.

This puts ChatGPT in direct competition with Google’s search, which is already seeing people frustrated with the quality of results.

So, are these shopping features a total game-changer? Not quite yet, but they might be in the future! Watch for more upgrades and maybe a few more sketchy product links.

🖥️ “Black Mirror” Called It

Have you watched Black Mirror? That creepy-but-genius show where every episode made you want to smash your phone, live in the woods, and hide from tech. It turns out that some sci-fi horror stories are not so fictional anymore. You’re living in it.

NY Times breaks down a few episodes that hit way too close to home:

• "Be Right Back": Girl talks to her dead boyfriend’s AI? Yeah, that's basically Replika now. People are marrying chatbots. No judgment (okay, maybe a little).

• "Metalhead": Murderous robot dogs? Boston Dynamics took notes. NYPD tried them, the public screamed, fire department adopted them. Happy ending?

• "White Bear" & "Shut Up and Dance": Online vigilantes chasing predators. Yep, real-life justice warriors now livestream beatdowns for likes.

• "Arkangel": Mom implants tracker in her kid. Welcome to AirTags and Life360-induced teen meltdowns.

• "Fifteen Million Merits": Screen overload, inescapable ads, and fake fans? You just described social media in 2025.

Basically, Black Mirror didn’t predict the future—it just sneakily narrated it.

Sleep tight!

🚲🌎 Get Your Street a Dutch Glow-Up

Ever wish your street looked like it popped straight out of a Dutch postcard? Good news: you can now Dutchify your block with just one photo and a sprinkle of AI magic. Thanks to Dutch Cycling Lifestyle's new AI tool, all you have to do is snap a pic of your street, upload it, and boom—you’ll get four dreamy, bike-loving Dutch versions of it.

Here’s how it goes down:

• Upload a photo of your street.

• Get 4 magical Dutch makeovers back.

• Steal ideas like cute cobblestone paths, leafy bike lanes, and adorable houses.

• Be realistic—unless your neighbors feel very Dutch today, your whole street probably won’t change. (But hey, you can at least jazz up your yard!)

The Cycling Lifestyle AI tool mixes AI, Google Street View, and real Dutch cycling know-how to make your street greener, healthier, and way more Instagrammable. Bonus points: biking everywhere helps fight climate change and keeps you healthy enough to brag about it later.

In short: Dutch vibes = good. Biking = better. Full neighborhood transformation = slightly unlikely, but still awesome. Go get that tulip-lined dream street!

Other cool AI stuff that is trending right now 🔥🔥

💰 Suspended for inventing a way to cheat interviews, this Columbia dropout just scored $5.3M to help everyone fake it till they make it. - Read more

🧪 MIT built a “periodic table” of machine learning that’s turning algorithm chaos into organized genius — and yes, it even predicts where undiscovered models might be hiding. - Read more

🦏 Ever wonder what whales are gossiping about or if elephants have inside jokes?—AI's now cracking the code on animal chit-chat, which might change how we treat our fellow earthlings. - Read more

🛑 Congress just passed the "Take It Down" Act, forcing tech companies to boot deepfake porn and revenge images. - Read more

🆕 Meta dropped a stand-alone AI app that might know you better than your best friend—thanks to years of Facebook stalking—and it's ready to help you chat, remember your lactose intolerance, and maybe even give you some weird but fun recommendations. - Read more