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TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout

By Aisha Malik · TechCrunch · Monday, 5 October 2026 at 18:29 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.

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Reflection debuts Beam, a open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute. Weights are due this month.

TechCrunch 2m ago

Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27

The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.

Ars Technica 21m ago

OpenAI will add a digital watermark to text and code generated in the EU

This move is to comply with the EU's new AI transparency rules.

Engadget 41m ago

TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout

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