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PAYPAL SIGNS DEAL WITH OPENAI TO BECOME THE FIRST PAYMENTS WALLET IN CHATGPT

PayPal's digital wallet will be embedded into ChatGPT so users can pay for items through the chatbot starting next year. The deal will also allow merchants to sell items on the platform. The move is an early part of OpenAI's efforts to broaden ChatGPT's use for e-commerce. The company believes its 700 million-plus weekly users will use the service to find items, similar to a human personal shopper. PayPal is attempting to position itself as a payments backbone for the upcoming era of agentic AI shopping.

PETER THIEL-BACKED STARTUP SECURES $100 MILLION TO MAKE CHIPS IN US

Substrate, a San Francisco-based startup founded by a protege of investor Peter Thiel, claims it has reinvented a key link in the microchip production process. It plans to use its innovation to build manufacturing facilities in the US. The startup has targeted a three-year timeframe for producing its first chips. Industry analysts say the high costs and enormous technical challenges in lithography give ASML, the sole global manufacturer of advanced lithography machines, a 10-year head start over any would-be competitors.

INTRODUCING AGENT HQ: ANY AGENT, ANY WAY YOU WORK

Agent HQ transforms GitHub into an open ecosystem that unites every agent on a single platform. Coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, xAI, and other providers will become available directly within GitHub as part of the GitHub Copilot subscription over the coming months. Agent HQ's power comes from a unified command center called 'mission control' that allows users to choose from a fleet of agents, assign them work in parallel, and track their progress from any device, wherever they work. It also provides new branch controls, identity features, one-click merge conflict resolution, and new integrations for Slack and Linear.

SAM ALTMAN SAYS OPENAI WILL HAVE A ‘LEGITIMATE AI RESEARCHER' BY 2028

OpenAI is tracking toward achieving an intern-level research assistant by September 2026 and a fully automated 'legitimate AI researcher' by 2028. The AI researcher will be a system capable of autonomously delivering on larger research projects. OpenAI is betting on continued algorithmic innovation and dramatically scaling test time compute to achieve its goal of creating superintelligence within the next decade. The company's recent restructure will help support its aggressive timeline for AI research assistants while maintaining a commitment to responsible AI development.

ELI LILLY PARTNERS WITH NVIDIA TO BUILD AI SUPERCOMPUTER FOR DRUG DISCOVERY

Eli Lilly and Nvidia have teamed up to build a supercomputer to boost the discovery of new medicines. The supercomputer and its AI capabilities will be able to identify new molecules to speed up the typical years-long development timelines. It will also help improve clinical trials, manufacturing processes, and sales. Financial terms of the partnership have not been disclosed. The system is expected to be online by January.

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