TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI’s ‘Operator’ Agent Can Buy Groceries
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:31.4 | Here's your TNV Tech Minute for Thursday, January 23rd. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:39.5 | OpenAI says it's new artificial intelligence tool that can buy groceries and file expense reports went live today for |
| 0:44.9 | some users. The startup's operator agent is part of a new generation of AI agents that can act on |
| 0:50.8 | behalf of users. Other tech companies are working on similar kinds of agents. |
| 0:55.4 | OpenAI's operator is available to ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S. |
| 1:00.2 | The startup is working with tech firms, including Instacart, Uber, and eBay, to make their |
| 1:04.6 | webpages more accessible to users on the operator homepage. |
| 1:08.2 | The companies don't have a financial relationship with OpenAI as part of the |
| 1:11.7 | collaboration. That's according to OpenAI's COO. Wall Street Journal owner News Corp has a content |
| 1:17.7 | licensing partnership with OpenAI. NetGo Health, a preventative healthcare tech company, has raised |
| 1:23.8 | $260 million. The deal brings its value to $1.8 billion, that's according to people |
| 1:30.4 | familiar with the funding. Neco Health was started by Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Eck. |
| 1:36.1 | The Series B funding round was led by venture firm, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and is aimed at |
| 1:40.8 | expanding the body scan startup's footprint in Europe and launching in the U.S. |
| 1:45.9 | And the UK's Competition and Markets Authority is investigating Apple's and Google's mobile ecosystems |
| 1:52.0 | to see if the two tech giants need to obey a new law governing digital competition. |
| 1:57.5 | The CMA said the probes will assess the company's dominance in spaces like mobile phone |
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