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📞 AI that calls stores and buys stuff is here
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Roni Rahman
November 14, 2025
Greetings! Your latest quick tech update is here:
☀️ On this day: On November 14, 2006, Microsoft released the Zune portable media player, its bold attempt to compete directly with Apple’s iPod. The Zune introduced features like wireless sharing and an integrated subscription music service, marking Microsoft’s most ambitious push into consumer digital music hardware. Microsoft ultimately discontinued the Zune in 2011, shifting its focus to software-based music services instead.
What’s happening:
🛍️ Google’s new AI will shop for you
🤝 ChatGPT now joins your group chats
🔍 LinkedIn unveils AI search to find people fast
🎙️ Morgan Freeman cracks down on AI voice fakes
💼 eBay’s AI makeover sparks a surprising comeback
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🛍️ Google’s new AI will shop for you ↗️LINK
What: Google is rolling out AI-powered shopping tools in Search and the Gemini app. Users can refine product searches, compare items, track prices, and even have an AI agent call stores for stock or sales info. Another agent can auto-purchase items when prices drop, using Google Pay.
Why: Google aims to simplify tedious shopping steps by turning search, research, and checkout into conversational AI tasks.
Impact: These features could shift shopping away from influencers and review sites, centralizing discovery and buying inside Google’s ecosystem.
🤝 ChatGPT now joins your group chats ↗️LINK
What: OpenAI launched group chats for ChatGPT, letting up to 20 people collaborate with AI in shared conversations. Users get invite links, profiles, and emoji reactions as ChatGPT mediates planning, debates, and brainstorming.
Why: The feature aims to make AI feel more social and useful in everyday group tasks, from travel plans to work projects.
Impact: Rolling out in select regions first, this move pushes ChatGPT deeper into social collaboration and heightens competition with Meta and Anthropic’s group-focused AI tools.
🔍 LinkedIn unveils AI search to find people fast ↗️LINK
What: LinkedIn is adding AI-powered people search for U.S. premium users, letting them use natural language queries like “Find investors in healthcare with FDA experience.” It removes the need for exact titles or complex filters and aims to surface the most relevant connections.
Why: As users turn to AI chatbots for answers, LinkedIn wants to modernize its core search and make discovering talent or contacts easier.
Impact: Early tests show people using it for jobs, business growth, and career help. Expansion is planned, though accuracy still needs improvement.
🎙️ Morgan Freeman cracks down on AI voice fakes ↗️LINK
What: Morgan Freeman says his lawyers are “very busy” pursuing cases where AI tools mimic his voice without permission. He’s frustrated that his iconic sound is being replicated without consent or payment.
Why: Freeman argues unauthorized voice cloning “robs” actors of their work. While he pushes back, others like Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine are partnering with ElevenLabs to create approved AI versions of their voices.
Impact: The divide shows how rapidly AI voice tech is reshaping rights, licensing, and how actors protect — or monetize — their vocal identity.
💼 eBay’s AI makeover sparks a surprising comeback ↗️LINK
What: eBay is reinventing itself with AI—rolling out “magical” listing tools, image cleanups, seller assistants, smarter shipping estimates, a shopping chatbot, and an AI search agent. The platform now leverages decades of data and 2.4B listings to boost accuracy and recommendations.
Why: After years of shrinking relevance, eBay is using AI to attract new sellers, help amateurs list items easily, and make discovery simpler for casual buyers.
Impact: The strategy is paying off: stock is up 75% since 2020, GMV grew 10%, and revenue is rising. AI could help eBay stand out against giants like Amazon, Shein, and Etsy.
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