TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI Lets Users Buy Stuff Directly Through ChatGPT
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:31.4 | Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Monday, September 29th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:39.0 | Chat GPT users can now buy things straight from the chatbot. Its owner, OpenAI, said |
| 0:45.0 | today that U.S.-based users will be able to buy goods from online marketplace Etsy's domestic |
| 0:50.5 | sellers, as well as some merchants on Shopify's e-commerce platform. |
| 0:55.2 | The service is called Instant Checkout. |
| 0:57.5 | The company also unveiled agentic commerce protocol, a way for merchants to build |
| 1:02.6 | integrations with ChatGTPT and make their products shoppable inside the chatbot. |
| 1:08.1 | Staying on OpenAI, we exclusively report that the company is planning to release |
| 1:12.6 | a new version of its SORA video generator that uses copyrighted material unless copyright holders |
| 1:19.3 | opt out. That's according to people familiar with the matter. Sources say the new version is expected |
| 1:25.2 | in the coming days. OpenAI declined to comment on any upcoming |
| 1:28.8 | products. And a quick note, News Corp, which owns the Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing |
| 1:34.2 | partnership with OpenAI. And the Trump administration is expanding its trade blacklist. |
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