The latest Products stories across our sources, prepared from the publishers’ own reporting.
OpenAI announced an enterprise agent platform called Dots, which features customizable, anthropomorphic avatars and is described as workplace software that can also handle personal tasks. The Verge reports users currently get one agent, with multiple Dots planned for the future.
Databricks reports that more than 1 million Genie Agents were created in 2026 alone, and has published guidance on choosing a first Genie Agent for maximum impact.
Some Pixel users have reported intermittent or complete failures with tap-to-pay in Google Wallet since the middle of last month, and Google has not acknowledged the bug or issued an official fix. Users suggest restarting the phone, reopening the app, or clearing its cache.
Nvidia has raised the US price of its Shield TV Pro streaming box by $100 to $299.99, effective October 2, citing substantially higher component costs including memory. The most recent version launched in 2019 at $199.99.
NVIDIA announced a 64GB unified memory configuration of DGX Spark, available October 23 from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI starting at $4,999. Two units can cluster via NVIDIA Sync Cluster Assistant to pool memory to 128GB and support up to 200-billion-parameter models.
A New York City server says some diners with food allergies have disputed her warnings about dishes, citing ChatGPT instead. She described close calls involving shellfish allergies.
Databricks published a post titled "Real-Time Retail Intelligence: Building E-Commerce Recommendations with Lakebase and AI Search on Databricks," about building e-commerce recommendation systems on its platform. Only the headline and a brief excerpt about personalization as a revenue engine were available.
OpenAI announced product and developer updates at DevDay 2026, including GPT-6.1 Sol, computer use for the Agents API, cloud-based Codex environments, a Decisions API in limited preview, and new ChatGPT plugin capabilities.
Suno has launched a speech feature in public beta on its web and mobile platforms that generates spoken voices from scripts or prompted descriptions, and can produce voiceovers and background music at the same time. Chief product officer Jack Brody said music remains central while the company's vision extends to other forms of expression.
Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming for real-time transcription and two text-to-speech models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. Microsoft says the transcription model ranks first for accuracy on Artificial Analysis and handles 60 languages.
DigitalOcean launched DigitalOcean Managed Agents in public preview, a managed cloud infrastructure layer for AI agents featuring isolated microVM runtimes, governed tool access, and serverless AI inference. The offering combines a Harness Runtime and an Action Gateway to handle execution, persistence, tool access, and underlying infrastructure.
MIT's Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship created Dear Dreamer, a free AI-powered youth entrepreneurship platform funded by the Frank and Eileen Foundation. Open to middle and high school students, it adapts Bill Aulet's disciplined entrepreneurship framework into a self-paced digital experience, with a goal to empower 50,000 young entrepreneurs by 2030.
Databricks published a piece describing how Genie One changes work for finance teams. The available item contains only a headline and a truncated excerpt, with no substantive detail.
Amazon Quick has launched Live Data in Apps, letting AI-built Quick apps query governed Quick Sight datasets in real time instead of relying on static build-time snapshots. Queries execute as the viewer, so existing row-level and column-level security rules apply, with per-dataset consent and server-side enforcement.
OpenAI announced the global launch of two new ChatGPT shopping features: virtual try-on for clothing and accessories using user photos, and a Favorites library for saving products. The features use the newly launched ChatGPT Images 2.5 model, OpenAI said.
Tavus introduced Griffin, which it calls the first "Human Interaction Model," an AI that holds real-time video calls. In a Tavus study, 48 percent of participants believed Griffin was a real person after a one-minute call, compared with two percent for previous systems.
Databricks announced branch-based restores for Lakebase Postgres, aiming to make recovery faster in managed OLTP environments where restores have historically been slow and worsen at scale.
Amazon Payments used a multi-objective contextual multi-armed bandit on Amazon SageMaker AI to personalize content across a product acquisition funnel. In a seven-week online A/B test, one customer population saw a high single-digit percentage relative lift in final-funnel conversion, while another saw no improvement.
Shopify introduced Canvas, a site-building tool that lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with Shopify's AI agent Sidekick. Changes render in real time on the store's actual code, and merchants can also edit elements directly.
Amazon Quick Sight announced the hierarchy filter, a single control that lets dashboard authors present multi-level drill-down filtering instead of separate controls. It supports up to five levels, dimension fields only, and searches limited to the highest hierarchy level.