OpenAI lets businesses claim ChatGPT profiles, adds AI agents for US e-commerce firms

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• OpenAI rolls out new business profiles, making ChatGPT just a little bit more like Google

  A new beta hub allows verified enterprises to manage their presence and launch specialized agents for direct customer inquiries on the artificial intelligence platform. This strategic pivot focuses on commercial discovery and engagement tracking rather than facilitating direct e-commerce transactions. The transition positions the service closer to established search engines by serving as an informational directory for consumers.

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• OpenAI launches Businesses in ChatGPT in beta, including Business Agents for companies to interact with users and a hub where companies can claim their profiles (Jay Peters/The Verge)

  The latest rollout introduces tools that facilitate direct communication between enterprises and everyday consumers on the AI platform. Organizations gain the ability to establish an official presence through a dedicated hub while deploying automated agents to connect with an audience. This move expands the software's functional scope into corporate customer engagement.

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• Mitra-v2: Scaling synthetic pretraining for tabular foundation models

  Developed by Amazon Connect Customer, this newly released open-source system enables enterprises to run predictive analytics across structured business data without creating bespoke machine learning setups for every task. By using in-context learning to infer missing values from unseen tables, it reduces the friction of deploying tailored algorithms. The release is published under an Apache-2.0 license on Hugging Face to broaden commercial and research adoption.

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