What’s happened? Google has rolled out new AI shopping features, including a virtual ‘try it on’ tool for clothing that lets you upload a photo of yourself to see how an item would look on. Price alerts have also been upgraded, allowing you to specify your preferred size, color, and target price for products with the “track price” feature.
This is important because: Goolge continues to expand its AI Mode offering which it announced during its Google IO 2025 keynote, with the aim of making browsing the web easier and quicker, as well as attempting to save shoppers money.
Why should I care? If you love online shopping, but hate the number of items you have to send back because they don’t fit, Google’s new AI tool could be perfect. By allowing you to see what an item of clothing might look like on your own body, you’ll be able to make more informed choices. Hopefully that means fewer items in the basket, and fewer returns.
Okay, what’s next? Google isn’t done there, with more AI features in the pipeline for later this year, including the ability to “explore shoppable outfit and room inspiration right from AI Mode”
Two new highly requested iCloud plugins just got added to ChatGPT, giving people who rely on Apple’s Mail and Calendar services a way to search emails, check appointments, and manage their schedules directly through the chatbot.
The integration is rolling out to all ChatGPT plans, including the free tier. You can access it on the web, desktop, and iOS.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.
Samsung’s scandal over its Game Optimizing Service, or GOS, has returned with a bill attached. South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has tentatively fined the company 20.1 billion won, or about $15.1 million, over gaming claims made for the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S22, and Tab S8.
The regulator says Samsung promoted the devices as gaming powerhouses without disclosing that GOS placed preset CPU and GPU limits on certain demanding games. Samsung disputes that conclusion, calling GOS a legitimate way to manage heat.