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Umar Shakir

Umar Shakir

Former News Writer

Former News Writer

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    Umar Shakir
    Umar Shakir
    eBay’s trading cards vault now accepts cards purchased outside of its marketplace.

    Previously, the company only allowed graded trading cards purchased directly on eBay into its physical collectible facility. In addition, now eBay will admit autographed, relic, and patch cards, plus the value minimum has been lowered from $750 to $250.

    Umar Shakir
    Umar Shakir
    Google’s spreadsheet-generating AI feature is rolling out now.

    Google is rolling out an AI feature for Sheets that auto-builds custom templates based on a text prompt, but it’s only coming to Workspace Labs users to start (via 9to5Google).

    Last month, the company showed off Duet AI, its answer to Microsoft’s Copilot (and perhaps Clippy), which contains a set of generative AI tools to help users write email responses in Gmail, create images from text in Google Slides, proofread documents in Google Docs, and more.

    Umar Shakir
    Umar Shakir
    Instacart’s upgraded smart grocery cart now carries 65 percent more food.

    The company’s been experimenting with its “Caper Cart” at limited Kroger and other food market locations — which automatically recognizes and rings up items as you put them in the cart — but now new versions are available at a Spotswood, New Jersey ShopRite, and are coming soon to a Fairway Market in NYC.

    Instacart’s VP of connected stores David McIntosh tells The Verge the updated carts have “software upgrades such as advanced computer vision AI,” and also support stacked charging.

    grocery cart with a tablet build onto it as a person lowers a bag of produce that will be weighed automatically by the cart
    Customers can load their Instacart grocery list into Caper Cart, add items into the basket, and then check out right from the cart.
    Image: Instacart