In this issue

🚀 Google adds AI to Chrome
📉 Tariffs expected to hit global growth
🤝 OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B partnership
👗 AI fashion tips inside Copilot
🛒 Amazon adds AI seller tools
🔍 OpenAI shopping search volume
🏬 Neuro’s feature with Kim K
🛠 Shopify updates
📚 Sam Altman on Abundant AI + H-1B visa history

STORY OF THE WEEK

Google is adding AI to Chrome

Google is rolling out Gemini AI to Chrome browsers in the U.S., with iOS and Android support coming soon. Beyond simple writing help and tab organization, Gemini is set to become a true browsing assistant.

Here’s what’s coming:

• Gemini in Chome: AI is now live in Chrome for Mac/Windows, with mobile support coming soon.

• Task assistant: soon, Gemini will be able to shop, book, and handle multi-step tasks.

• Multi-tab view: combine info from several tabs into one summary (think: travel plans or shopping).

• Smart recall: ask Chrome to pull up pages you visited in the past.

• App integrations: use Calendar, YouTube, and Maps directly without leaving the browser.

• AI Mode in omnibox: get results from Google AI straight from the address bar.

• On-page answers: ask questions about the site you’re on and get AI summaries.

• Scam prevention: better protection against fake alerts and shady pop-ups.

• Cleaner notifications: Chrome will cut spammy prompts and adapt them to your habits.

• One-click password fix: instantly reset compromised passwords on supported sites.

Google also announced a new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), built with partners like Mastercard and PayPal, to standardize how AI agents make secure transactions online.

Read the full release.

OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK

Tariffs could slow global growth

The OECD warns that new tariffs hitting in 2026 will drag down the U.S. economy and ripple across global markets. Read more.

OpenAI and Nvidia strike a $100B deal

Sam Altman and Jensen Huang struck one of the largest partnerships in tech history linking OpenAI with Nvidia’s hardware. Read more

AI fashion in Copilot

Curated For You launched an AI-powered shopping experience inside Microsoft Copilot, because everyone gets fashion advice from Microsoft, right? Read more.

Amazon adds AI for sellers

Amazon is adding more AI tools into seller tools, especially around product listing optimization. Read the full release.

2% of ChatGPT conversations are about shopping

That’s roughly 50M shopping-related queries per day — small compared to Google’s 1B daily shopping sessions, but a number worth watching as OpenAI experiments with shopping. Read more (NBER PDF).

STORE OF THE WEEK

Neuro

When Kim Kardashian promotes your brand on Instagram, you know you’ve done something right. Neuro’s functional gum and mints have been on a rocket ship the past few years. Going from Shark Tank to shelves nationwide, and now getting a feature from the world’s biggest influencer.

We’re lucky to have played a small part in that journey. Our team worked with Neuro to design a custom Shopify storefront that is much easier to manage.

Learn how Platter helped Neuro save $27k and build a new Shopify store.

SHOPIFY UPDATES OF THE WEEK

Here are Shopify’s latest changes:

• Metafields (Sep 23) 
  New definition types: article_reference + list.article_reference.

• Customer segments (Sep 19)
  Build segments based on categories customers browse or buy.

• Sidekick apps (Sep 17)
  Discover, compare, and install apps with Sidekick.

See all of Shopify’s updates in their changelog.

OTHER COOL CONTENT THIS WEEK

The introduction of Abundant AI

Sam Altman argues that access to AI will be as fundamental to the global economy as electricity, predicting exponential growth in AI-driven productivity. Read the full blog post.

H-1B Visa, explained

Bloomberg Law put together a quick history of how the U.S. work visa evolved, from Truman’s era to Trump’s latest policy changes. Watch the video on YouTube.

Wired phones are making a comeback

Modern Retail breaks down how Tin Can, a modern landline brand, went viral by leaning into retro vibes and nostalgia. Read the full article.

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