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🤖 ChatGPT Will Now Help You Decide What to Buy

🤖 ChatGPT Will Now Help You Decide What to Buy

Plus: Google's Nano Banana Pro and Data Residency Expansion

November 27, 2025

Hello AI Enthusiast,

This past week OpenAI launched a shopping research feature just days before Black Friday, convenient timing for the biggest shopping weekend of the year. Google released Nano Banana Pro, their new image generation model with better text rendering and editing. And OpenAI expanded data residency to 10 regions, making enterprise adoption easier. Let's dive in.

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The Big Picture 🔊

ChatGPT Launches Shopping Research Feature

OpenAI has launched "shopping research" in ChatGPT, creating personalized buyer's guides by analyzing products across the internet. Users describe their needs, answer clarifying questions, and receive detailed comparisons within minutes. Powered by a specialized GPT-5 mini model, it's now available to all ChatGPT users through the holidays.

Andrea MattielloCM and Board Lover

This feels like a natural step for ChatGPT. We're already using AI to customize product searches, asking for gift ideas based on specific preferences or comparing products with detailed pros and cons.

The trust issue is tricky though. OpenAI says results are "organic" while also mentioning merchants can apply for inclusion, which seems contradictory. They'll definitely monetize this eventually through paid placements.

OpenAI Expands Data Residency Options for Business Customers

OpenAI now offers data residency across 10 global regions, allowing business customers using ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, or its API Platform to store data locally. This helps organizations meet regulatory requirements like GDPR. Available regions include Europe, UK, US, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia, and UAE, with more planned.

Helin YontarCPO and Polyglot

This was always going to happen. Data residency is non-negotiable for large enterprises - especially in banking, manufacturing, and insurance. If your data can't stay in-country, it's an automatic "no" regardless of how good the AI is.

It's only available for ChatGPT Enterprise customers, which means medium-sized companies using Business plans are left out for now. Though honestly, data residency mostly matters to the big players anyway.

With OpenAI now offering local data storage across 10 regions, the compliance barriers to AI adoption are finally dropping. Our Corporate AI Training helps your teams take full advantage of these tools now that regulatory concerns are being addressed.

Google Launches Nano Banana Pro Image Generator

Google has released Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), a new AI image generation model that excels at creating accurate text within images and generating context-rich visuals like infographics and diagrams. Built on Gemini 3 Pro, it can blend up to 14 images while maintaining consistency of 5 people, offers studio-quality controls, and supports multiple languages.

Gianluca MauroFounder and AI Rockstar

We tested Nano Banana Pro and found it works well for general image generation. The challenge comes when you try making specific edits or steering the image toward exactly what you want. What should be quick adjustments can turn into lengthy and frustrating prompting sessions.

Professionals in fashion and advertising are finding that AI-generated campaigns sometimes take more time than traditional methods because of these steering difficulties.

Bits and Bobs 🗞️

Anthropic is scaling its Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure using NVIDIA architecture, supported by major investments from Microsoft and NVIDIA to enhance AI performance and access.
Claude Opus 4.5 is a state-of-the-art AI model excelling in coding, problem-solving, and robustness, using fewer resources while outperforming previous models and human benchmarks in software engineering tasks.
The U.S. government has launched the "Genesis Mission", a national effort to use AI platforms and federal scientific data to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation across key technology areas.
AWS plans to build new data centers with 1.3 gigawatts of compute to expand advanced AI services like SageMaker and Anthropic’s Claude for U.S. government use starting in 2026.
TikTok is introducing user controls to adjust AI-generated content visibility and testing "invisible watermarking" technology to better label AI-created videos.
Anthropic's research shows that AI models can unintentionally learn to "reward hack" during training, leading to increased misaligned and deceptive behaviors, but small prompt changes can effectively reduce this risk.
OpenAI is offering ChatGPT for Teachers free through June 2027, providing educators a secure AI workspace with advanced GPT-5.1 features to support classroom work and collaboration.
Meta's SAM 3 and SAM 3D models simplify advanced computer vision for everyday users by enabling precise object detection and 3D reconstruction from single images, fueling new AI-powered tools in creative apps and e-commerce.

From Our Founder’s Channels 🤳

In his latest TikTok, Gianluca Mauro tests Google’s new Nano Banana Pro model with image-generation prompts and shows how, despite technical accuracy, inconsistent and frustrating responses highlight why user experience matters more than raw model intelligence.

@gianluca.mauro
Google nano banana pro and a very frustrating ai experience #Ai #learnontiktok #business #google#greenscreen

LOLgorithms 😂

Not everyone is thrilled about ChatGPT's new shopping feature.

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