Tag: OpenAI
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Two Protocols, Two Futures: OpenAI’s ACP vs. Anthropic’s MCP
Imagine this: It’s a Tuesday evening, and you’re buried in work. Your AI assistant notices your flight to New York got canceled due to a storm. Without missing a beat, it scans alternatives, books a new one on your credit card, coordinates a rideshare to the airport, and even reschedules your hotel— all while you…
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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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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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OpenAI for Germany: A Tech Mirage Ignoring Citizens’ Real Needs
Oh, joy unbounded! Another tech behemoth swoops in to “revolutionize” the public sector, this time with OpenAI teaming up with SAP and Microsoft to birth “OpenAI for Germany” – a sovereign AI playground slated for 2026, where data stays cozy within German borders thanks to Azure-powered clouds. Because nothing says “innovation” like slapping AI lipstick…
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From Prompts to People: What OpenAI’s Usage Study Means for Model Leaderboards
When one studies OpenAI’s recent usage analysis of ChatGPT, what emerges is a portrait of an AI tool deeply embedded in daily life—not as an exotic laboratory artifact, but as an assistant in writing, learning, decision-making, and routine communication. Between May 2024 and June/July 2025, more than 1.5 million user messages were sampled; users are…