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OpenAI has partnered with Booking.com to create the SME AI Accelerator, a program that will provide free, practical AI training to small and medium-sized businesses across six European countries. The initiative combines in‑person workshops, virtual sessions, and lessons from the OpenAI Academy to demonstrate how AI can boost productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness. Targeting 20,000 firms, the program aims to close the gap between AI adoption rates of large enterprises and SMEs, which currently stand at 55% versus 17% respectively. The effort forms part of a broader EU economic blueprint to strengthen the region’s AI ecosystem. Leggi di più

Amazon announced a new suite of frontier artificial intelligence models—Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic and Nova Omni—at its re:Invent conference. Alongside the models, the company introduced Nova Forge, a tool that lets cloud customers add their own data at various stages of model training to create specialized versions. Early adopters such as Reddit, Booking.com, Sony and Nimbus Therapeutics are testing the service. Amazon claims the Nova 2 Pro model matches or exceeds leading competitors on benchmark tests, positioning the offering as a customizable alternative for businesses seeking domain‑specific AI capabilities. Leggi di più

OpenAI has rolled out a suite of new app integrations for ChatGPT, allowing users to connect accounts from services such as Spotify, Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Expedia, Figma, and Zillow. By linking these accounts, users can ask ChatGPT to perform tasks like creating playlists, searching for hotels, designing graphics, finding online courses, planning trips, generating diagrams, and locating homes—all within the chat interface. The company notes that connections share data with the model, prompting users to review permissions, and offers a simple way to disconnect apps. Additional partners—including DoorDash, OpenTable, Target, Uber, and Walmart—are slated to join later, with the rollout currently limited to the United States and Canada. Leggi di più

OpenAI announced plans to transform ChatGPT into a universal app frontend, enabling instant checkout through an "agentic commerce protocol" and integrating a growing roster of third‑party services such as Expedia, Booking.com, Peloton, Target, Uber and DoorDash. Developers can now use a new SDK and a set of guidelines to submit apps for inclusion in a curated directory, with higher‑quality apps receiving prominent placement. The company also unveiled AgentKit, a visual tool for building specialized chatbots, demonstrated with a live "Ask Froge" demo. Additional updates include Slack integration for the Codex coding agent and the release of new models like Sora 2 and GPT‑5 Pro via API. Leggi di più

OpenAI announced at its Dev Day that the company is rolling out a new app ecosystem for ChatGPT, beginning with a Zillow integration that lets users search for homes directly within the chatbot. The launch also includes partner apps such as Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, and Spotify, available in English‑speaking markets outside the EU. Future additions slated for later this year include DoorDash, Peloton, Uber, TripAdvisor, OpenTable and Target. The move aims to make third‑party services more accessible without leaving the ChatGPT conversation, signaling a broader push toward conversational commerce and AI‑driven user experiences. Leggi di più

OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT with a new in‑chat app platform that lets users invoke services such as Spotify, Canva, Zillow, Booking.com, Expedia, Figma, Coursera and others directly within a conversation. The feature works by detecting user intent and automatically offering the appropriate third‑party app, eliminating the need to click external links. Users grant access permissions the first time an app is used, and developers can build their own integrations with OpenAI’s SDK. The rollout is currently global except for the European Union, with plans to add more partners over time. Leggi di più