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OpenAI Just Rebuilt How You Shop

Plus, 🤖 Anthropic just upgraded agent workflows, How to automate your work in minutes with Lindy, and more!

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Hello there! Ready to dive into another upgrading, Mind-boggling, and Value-filled Shift?

Today we have:

🛍️ ChatGPT Shopping Research Launch

🤖 How to Automate Your Work in Minutes with Lindy

🤖 Claude Opus 4.5 Breakthrough

🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss

🛍️ ChatGPT Shopping Research Launch

ChatGPT introduced Shopping Research, a guided product-discovery tool that builds personalized buyer guides using trusted retail sources. It asks clarifying questions, updates results in real time, and supports deeper decisions across categories with minimal effort.

The Shift:

1. Conversational Discovery - Shopping Research turns product exploration into guided clarification, collecting budgets, constraints, preferences, and intended use. It refines suggestions through user feedback, replacing multi-tab searching with a single interactive interface.

2. GPT-5 Mini Engine - The feature runs a specialized GPT-5 mini model trained with reinforcement learning for shopping accuracy. It delivers 52% product-match accuracy versus ChatGPT Search’s 37%, using trusted retailer pages and real-time refinement dynamically.

3. Interactive Workflow - Users launch Shopping Research from queries or the tools menu, answer clarifying questions, then review evolving recommendations. Memory customizes suggestions when enabled, and final buyer guides summarize options and relevant information for confident decisions.

4. Merchant Allowlisting - Shopping Research never shares user chats, and all listings come from publicly available retail pages. Merchants wanting inclusion must complete OpenAI’s allowlisting process, with Instant Checkout bringing direct purchasing capabilities soon.

Shopping Research shifts discovery from search engines into ChatGPT by concentrating on research, filtering, and decision support. It helps reduce friction for complex purchases, setting foundations for ChatGPT to eventually handle discovery, evaluation, and purchasing within one ecosystem.

TOGETHER WITH DEEPGRAM

Voice AI Goes Mainstream in 2025

Human-like voice agents are moving from pilot to production. In Deepgram’s 2025 State of Voice AI Report, created with Opus Research, we surveyed 400 senior leaders across North America - many from $100M+ enterprises - to map what’s real and what’s next.

The data is clear:

  • 97% already use voice technology; 84% plan to increase budgets this year.

  • 80% still rely on traditional voice agents.

  • Only 21% are very satisfied.

  • Customer service tops the list of near-term wins, from task automation to order taking.

See where you stand against your peers, learn what separates leaders from laggards, and get practical guidance for deploying human-like agents in 2025.

🤖 How to Automate Your Work in Minutes with Lindy

Lindy works like an AI employee, just tell it the task, and it runs it for you.

1. Describe the workflow: Example: “When a lead submits a form, research them and send a personalized email.”

2. Connect your apps: Plug in Gmail, HubSpot, Sheets, Slack, or any of 5,000+ integrations.

3. Hit deploy: Lindy runs 24/7, handling leads, reports, and follow-ups automatically.

You can try it here!

🤖 Claude Opus 4.5 Breakthrough

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s newest flagship model with major improvements in coding, reasoning, and agentic workflows. It is available across apps, API, and all major clouds. The release also brings platform upgrades for longer tasks, context handling, and multi-agent systems.

The Shift:

1. Core Model Advancements - Opus 4.5 delivers state-of-the-art results in software engineering, including the highest score on SWE-bench Verified and leadership across 7 programming languages, while outperforming human candidates on Anthropic’s technical exam and improving reasoning, vision, and mathematics significantly.

2. Safety and Alignment Improvements - Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s most aligned model to date, with strong reductions in concerning behaviors, better resistance to prompt-injection attacks, and broader robustness across evaluations, ensuring safer performance in real-world high-stakes environments for enterprise users. 

3. Developer Platform Upgrades - The new effort parameter allows precise control over speed, cost, and depth, while context compaction memory enhancements and multi-agent coordination boost long-running performance, delivering up to fifteen percent gains in complex research workflows.

4. Product Enhancements for Users - Claude Code gains improved planning, multi-session desktop support, and deeper execution accuracy, while Claude apps now support endless conversations. Chrome access expands for Max users, and Excel capability extends across major workspace plans.

Claude Opus 4.5 meaningfully advances coding automation agent reliability and enterprise safety while reducing token costs, allowing teams to automate deeper workflows, build stronger multi-agent systems, and improve research productivity across long, high-complexity tasks.

TOGETHER WITH GUIDDE

From Boring to Brilliant: Training Videos Made Simple

Say goodbye to dense, static documents. And say hello to captivating how-to videos for your team using Guidde.

1️⃣ Create in Minutes: Simplify complex tasks into step-by-step guides using AI.
2️⃣ Real-Time Updates: Keep training content fresh and accurate with instant revisions.
3️⃣ Global Accessibility: Share guides in any language effortlessly.

Make training more impactful and inclusive today.

The best part? The browser extension is 100% free.


🔨AI Tools for the Shift

🎨 Cartoonize AI – Transform any photo into a vibrant cartoon instantly with one click and zero design skills.

🤖 HaloMate – Build custom AI assistant teams powered by today’s leading AI models.

🍎 Zero: AI Calorie Tracker – Track calories and protein effortlessly with an AI-powered nutrition assistant.

🎥 InfiniteTalk AI – Generate natural, infinite-length talking videos from a single image or video with precise lip-sync and full-body motion.

📈 BestStock AI – Access fast, clean, and trusted global market data built for professionals and long-term investors.


🚀Quick Shifts

⚡ Trump’s new ‘Genesis Mission’ aims to fix AI challenges by using more AI, focusing on accelerating scientific breakthroughs and tackling rising national energy demand that’s driving up electricity costs.

Amazon is pouring up to $50B into new US government data centers, adding nearly 1.3GW of AI-ready capacity with both AWS Trainium and NVIDIA chips, with construction starting in 2026.

Jony Ive and Sam Altman say their first OpenAI hardware device has reached the prototyping stage, describing it as a simple, playful, screen-free gadget roughly phone-sized and arriving in under two years.

🤖 A new benchmark, HumaneBench, tests whether AI chatbots protect user well-being, revealing most models fail under pressure, with 67% turning harmful when asked to ignore safety principles.

🤳AI Nugget of the Day


That’s all for today’s edition see you tomorrow as we track down and get you all that matters in the daily AI Shift!

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