Topic: personalization features

  • ChatGPT Is Getting Ads: Here's How They'll Work

    ChatGPT Is Getting Ads: Here's How They'll Work

    OpenAI will introduce non-intrusive, clearly marked advertisements to ChatGPT's free and lower-tier plans, ensuring ads do not influence the chatbot's core responses. The ads will be matched to conversation topics with strong privacy safeguards; user data and conversations will not be sold to adv...

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  • The Tooth Fairy Goes Digital for Tech-Savvy Kids

    The Tooth Fairy Goes Digital for Tech-Savvy Kids

    The Tooth Fairy Tracker is a new digital service that transforms losing a tooth into a personalized, day-long adventure for children, using a sequence of video updates from a character named Kiki. Created to meet the expectations of digitally-native Generation Alpha, the free platform builds exci...

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  • TikTok Shop Takes on Amazon and eBay with Digital Gift Cards

    TikTok Shop Takes on Amazon and eBay with Digital Gift Cards

    TikTok Shop has launched digital gift cards for its U.S. marketplace, strategically timing the release for the holiday season to compete with major e-commerce platforms like Amazon and eBay. The feature offers highly personalized, animated cards for various occasions, with funds instantly added t...

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  • 2025 App Wrapped: Your Year in Review

    2025 App Wrapped: Your Year in Review

    Personalized year-end summaries, popularized by music streaming services, have become a widespread digital phenomenon where companies use customized data visualizations to create unique snapshots of user activity, fostering personal connections. The trend has expanded beyond music to sectors like...

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  • ChatGPT's Shopping Power & AI Citation Secrets

    ChatGPT's Shopping Power & AI Citation Secrets

    OpenAI's ChatGPT now offers personalized shopping assistance to all users, engaging them in conversational queries before providing customized buyer's guides, which shifts product discovery earlier in the customer journey. A study by SE Ranking found that the number of referring domains is the st...

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  • GPT-5.1 Upgrade: How ChatGPT Gets Warmer and Smarter

    GPT-5.1 Upgrade: How ChatGPT Gets Warmer and Smarter

    GPT-5.1 introduces two new models—Instant for quick, warm everyday interactions and Thinking for complex, in-depth analysis—enhancing conversational quality and adaptability. The update expands customization with selectable personality tones, adjustable response characteristics, and improved unde...

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  • Claude's New Feature Rivals ChatGPT - Here's Who Gets Access

    Claude's New Feature Rivals ChatGPT - Here's Who Gets Access

    Anthropic's Memory feature for Claude is now available to all paid Pro and Max subscribers, allowing the AI to retain interaction details for a more personalized and efficient user experience. The feature, powered by the Claude 4 model family, enables continuous context from past dialogues, reduc...

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  • Microsoft Copilot Gains Memory, Search Connectors & New Features

    Microsoft Copilot Gains Memory, Search Connectors & New Features

    Microsoft's Copilot Fall Release introduces personalized long-term memory, allowing the AI to remember user-specific details across conversations while giving users full control over stored information. Enhanced collaboration features include a Groups function for real-time shared AI sessions and...

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  • Roku's Massive Upgrade: All the New Features Revealed

    Roku's Massive Upgrade: All the New Features Revealed

    Roku's platform upgrade introduces AI-powered voice search for more natural, conversational queries and enhanced content discovery tools to streamline entertainment access. New features include a "Ways to Watch" button for instant viewing from trailers and real-time sports alerts with customizabl...

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  • Google Performance Max Now Supports Vertical 9:16 Image Ads

    Google Performance Max Now Supports Vertical 9:16 Image Ads

    Google's Performance Max campaigns now support vertical 9:16 image ads, enabling brands to engage audiences on mobile-first platforms where attention is highest. The ads, requiring images of at least 600x1067 pixels and under 5MB, are expected to appear in placements like YouTube Shorts, enhancin...

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  • Free AI Browser Dia Launches for Mac, Windows Waitlist Open

    Free AI Browser Dia Launches for Mac, Windows Waitlist Open

    The Dia browser is a free, AI-integrated agentic browser for Mac that automates web tasks and requires macOS 14 or newer on M1 chips or later. It features an AI sidebar for summarizing content, comparing websites, and personalized assistance, along with a Pro subscription for unlimited features a...

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  • Amazon Echo Dot Max: The Ultimate Smart Speaker

    Amazon Echo Dot Max: The Ultimate Smart Speaker

    Amazon has launched the Echo Dot Max, a new smart speaker with a spherical design and a flat front panel housing controls and an LED light ring. The device integrates with the Alexa Plus subscription service, enabling natural conversations, multi-device control with single commands, and personali...

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  • Ooredoo Kuwait Launches Unified Digital Platform with Liferay

    Ooredoo Kuwait Launches Unified Digital Platform with Liferay

    Ooredoo Kuwait has launched a unified digital platform using Liferay's technology to modernize customer-facing systems and provide a smoother, integrated experience. The platform consolidates the website, customer portal, and e-commerce into a single framework with a headless CMS for faster conte...

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  • Gemini AI Sidekick Comes to Google Play Games

    Gemini AI Sidekick Comes to Google Play Games

    The Google Play Store is undergoing a major redesign to boost personalization and cross-platform integration, with a significant upgrade to its gaming hub that adds social features and rewards systems. Gamer profiles are now more dynamic and public, allowing users to display activity, interact wi...

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  • Discover Music Faster with Spotify's New Smart Filters

    Discover Music Faster with Spotify's New Smart Filters

    Spotify has introduced smart filters for Premium subscribers, enabling music sorting by mood, activity, or genre, and enhancing discovery of playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts. The update is part of Spotify's broader personalization efforts, including recent AI-powered playlist creation and mana...

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  • OpenAI's GPT-6 Could Arrive Sooner Than Expected

    OpenAI's GPT-6 Could Arrive Sooner Than Expected

    OpenAI's GPT-6 is in development with a faster release timeline than previous models, focusing on advanced personalization and memory retention for more tailored user interactions. The company is addressing privacy concerns by considering future encryption for user data and aligning with regulato...

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  • Waymo's Robotaxis Now Feature an Enhanced Music Experience

    Waymo's Robotaxis Now Feature an Enhanced Music Experience

    Waymo now integrates Spotify into its robotaxis, allowing passengers to seamlessly stream personalized music, playlists, or podcasts directly through the vehicle's app or touchscreen. The update simplifies audio control by enabling Spotify's mobile app as a remote for the car's system, offering f...

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  • GPT-5 Is Here: Everything You Need to Know About OpenAI's Latest Release

    GPT-5 Is Here: Everything You Need to Know About OpenAI's Latest Release

    OpenAI launched GPT-5, its most advanced AI model yet, offering enhanced intelligence, speed, and accuracy while reducing incorrect responses, as described by CEO Sam Altman as transformative. GPT-5 delivers PhD-level expertise across subjects but remains a static model, falling short of ...

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