Here's today's top stories in AI news. OpenAI launched Shopping Research in ChatGPT, a tool that builds tailored, research-grade buying guides with product comparisons and current retailer info; it appears on relevant prompts, takes a few minutes to generate, and will later tie into Instant Checkout. Google’s AI reset continues with Gemini 3 debuting directly inside Search; while the company touts record results and end-to-end stack advantages, AI Overviews and conversational search raise unresolved questions about ad economics and the web’s health, with publishers reporting traffic strain and Google disputing studies showing reduced clicks. New research from Cardiff University and Ca’ Foscari finds LLMs recognize pun structures without true understanding; performance drops sharply on unfamiliar wordplay, underscoring limits in humor and cultural nuance. Sunday Robotics emerged with Memo, a two-armed home robot trained on 10 million real routines via $200 “Skill Capture Gloves,” handling dishes, laundry, and coffee with zero-shot generalization; pilot shipments target 2026. Anthropic released Opus 4.5, setting new coding and tool-use benchmarks, adding improved long-context memory and “endless chat,” and expanding Claude for Chrome and Excel.
