1. AGENTIC COMMERCE — Walmart x OpenAI. You’ll soon “shop by chatting.”

   Walmart just teamed up with OpenAI to launch Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT. Plan meals, restock essentials, or find new products — and check out instantly without leaving chat. The system learns your preferences over time — a concept Walmart calls Agentic Commerce.

2. LEARNER-FIRST AI — Meet Cognify. Forget passive scrolling — meet active learning. @askCognify is positioning itself as the “learner-first ChatGPT.”

   Annotate, test, and retain 4× more with interactive study tools that turn curiosity into cognition. Beta dropped on Oct 20, with a free Pro month + $500 giveaway for early testers.

3. The Browser Wars 2.0: OpenAI vs. Microsoft? The platform wars are heating up, and the alliances are getting weird.

   • OpenAI Launches "ChatGPT Atlas": OpenAI unveiled its own AI-powered web browser for macOS. It has agentic features built-in and integrates with Shopify, Expedia, and Etsy. This is a clear signal that OpenAI is building its own AI-native OS.

   • Microsoft's New Mascot: As OpenAI builds its own browser, Microsoft is forging its own AI identity. They just launched their first self-built models (MAI-Voice-1) and a new Clippy-like mascot, signaling a strategic move awayfrom total reliance on OpenAI.

4. The Local AI Revolution: Claude is Now on Your Desktop. This is the biggest product launch of the week. Anthropic's Claude Desktop moves AI from the cloud to your computer, and it's a productivity game-changer.

   • What It Is: A local AI assistant that integrates directly with your computer's files, apps, and workflows.

   • Why It's a Threat: It runs locally, so sensitive data doesn't go to the cloud. It's the "privacy-first automation alternative" to browser-based AI.

   • The Power: It has deep cross-app integration (GitHub, Slack, AWS, Notion) and acts as a true automation layer, replacing tools like Zapier.

   • The Killer Stat: Anthropic's internal dev onboarding time dropped from 3 weeks to 3 days using Claude Desktop. This is the new productivity baseline.

The Money Report: $1.38B for Data Centers

The bubble warnings are here, but the infrastructure money is flowing.

• Adobe's Enterprise Play: Adobe launched AI Foundry, a new service for brands to create custom, copyright-safe Firefly models trained on their own proprietary assets.

• The Bubble Strategy: Investors are now using "dot-com era" strategies to avoid overhyped AI stocks as funding shifts from general LLMs to agentic systems and domain-tuned AI.

OpenAI’s Atlas: Your Browser Just Got an AI Upgrade

ChatGPT Atlas is a standalone web browser for macOS that fundamentally integrates AI into the core of the browsing experience. Instead of AI being a sidebar or an extension, Atlas is built from the ground up to be an "AI-native" browser, positioning it as a direct competitor to Google Chrome and other established browsers. With this move, OpenAI isn’t just competing with other browsers — it’s redefining how we navigate the web.

You can ask it to summarise pages, analyse data, rewrite text inline, or even act on your behalf via “Agent Mode”.  Here is a detailed breakdown of its features, availability, and agentic capabilities.

Find Out More Details Here

Tools to Try

The Ultimate Prompt Corner: Face Swap + Animate Flow

This workflow combines Nano Banana and Wan to create a realistic, animated face swap. We tried it at Cahn and results were amazing. Try for yourself and tag us!!!!

1. Record & Capture: Prepare a video of yourself speaking (Video V) and take a photo (Image A) from the same angle.

2. Choose Target Face: Find a photo (Image B) of the person you want to become, matching the angle of Image A.

3. Face Swap (Nano Banana): Upload Image A (your face) and Image B (target face). 
Use this prompt: "Replace the character in the first image with the character from the second image, while keeping the background environment of the first image unchanged. Simply put, use the character from the second image to replace the character in the first image. At the same time, pay attention to ensuring that the environmental lighting on the character after integration doesn't look too out of place. It needs to harmonize with the environment.”

4. Animate (Wan): Upload the new Image C (swapped face) and your original video V to create.wan.video. Set Media to Avatar and Function to Photo Animate.