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Shopify will let customers connect AI agents to their Shop account to browse and buy from more than a billion listings without bespoke partnerships like the earlier Meta Muse deal. Checkout uses Shop Pay inside the conversation, and buyers must approve each order.
At a UK parliamentary committee hearing, Anthropic said voluntary safety commitments are not enough and OpenAI backed a statutory framework starting with mandatory incident reporting. Google DeepMind emphasized standards and Meta pointed to existing regulators. UK AI Security Institute leaders said they cannot block a release.
Microsoft is creating Xbox Labs, a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists experimenting with AI-assisted decompilation, recompilation and remix culture. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says success will be measured by whether more people play and create; questions about unauthorized ports remain.
Meta launched Your Algorithm on Facebook, letting people describe what they want more or less of in Feed and Reels, with changes applied in real time. The feature follows Instagram’s rollout. Whether stated preferences persist against an engagement-driven business model is the key test.
The Verge’s Victoria Song finds Meta’s $349 audio-only Ray-Bans reduce the social discomfort of camera glasses and work as comfortable open-ear headphones with multi-day battery, but the AI features are uneven and the price is high for what they do.
The Verge’s report on Facebook’s Your Algorithm highlights the technical shift: Meta is using large language models in ranking to incorporate the interests and intent behind natural-language requests, producing ‘an algorithm you can actually talk to’ that adapts within the same session.
Ars Technica reports Google will let people send vibe-coded apps from AI Studio into a private Play Store Personal Library, installable without sideloading or a developer console. Private apps are not reviewed; wider distribution requires a developer profile and standard Play review.
TechCrunch reports that Google Play supports private vibe-coded apps for US users aged 18 and up, built in AI Studio and launched with a standard Google account. The apps do not appear in search. Policies still apply, but without pre-review, enforcement is reactive.
The Verge’s shorter take: launch AI Studio apps through Play without cabling a phone—still private, still separate from the public catalog.
Google DeepMind’s robotics post presents Gemini 4 Argon as a physical-reasoning model, citing 87% on the ERQA benchmark and demos spanning Spot manipulation, zero-shot arm control, world-model steering and Real2Sim reconstruction. Results are Google-reported and await reproduction.
DeepMind’s Argon launch post stacks internal wins—Chrome refactors, cyberdefense, science—then opens the model to paid developers, Pro/Ultra users, and more Fairwind partners.
Meta Engineering says its 2026 Generative Ads Model consolidates per-surface optimizations into a single foundation model across Facebook, Instagram and Reels, reporting an 18.9% conversion improvement and 12% higher click-through. The figures are Meta-reported blended results.