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Agentic Commerce, Explained: What OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol Means for Retail and SaaS
OpenAI has begun rolling out Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT for U.S. users, letting people buy products from participating merchants—starting with Etsy sellers, and with Shopify merchants “coming soon.” The system is powered by a new open standard called the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), co-developed with Stripe and now open-sourced. It’s designed so an AI agent…
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An LLM Made of Redstone Bricks: What CraftGPT Really Teaches Us
A few times a decade, someone takes an idea that sounds like a joke and executes it with surgical patience. CraftGPT is one of those moments: a small language model that runs inside Minecraft, wired up from Redstone like a cathedral of logic gates. The project comes from sammyuri, who released the world and code…
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From Prompt Packs to Purpose-Built Models: When a Generalist Becomes a Specialist—and When It Still Doesn’t
OpenAI’s Academy has begun to systematize something many power users discovered by trial and error: with the right scaffolding, a general-purpose model can deliver specialist-level work. The “Prompt Packs” series—role-based collections for sales, product, engineers, HR, managers, executives, and public-sector roles—codifies prompts that structure tasks, inject domain context, and specify deliverables. In effect, they turn…
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AI Magnifies Your Team’s Strengths and Weaknesses – Insights from Google’s 2025 DORA Report
AI as the Great Amplifier Artificial intelligence isn’t a magical fix for a struggling software team – it’s more like a spotlight and a megaphone. That’s the main takeaway from Google Cloud’s 2025 State of AI-Assisted Software Development report, part of the DORA research program (DevOps Research and Assessment). The report reveals that AI doesn’t…
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The EU’s Regulatory Overreach: Stifling Innovation and Punishing Consumers
In the ever-evolving saga of Big Tech versus bureaucracy, Apple’s latest unveiling on September 9, 2025, should have been a triumph—a live translation feature for AirPods that promises to dissolve language barriers in real time. Picture it: effortless conversations across cultures, a true leap forward in connectivity. Yet, for users in Germany and the broader…
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