{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Tech Updates","title":"Episode 217 - ChatGPT Shopping, Gemini's AI Watermarks, Whale Drones, and Israel's Tech Boom","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/125329a8\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1574,"description":"The Arc browser is integrating features from OpenAI and ChatGPT, and a guide is available for using ChatGPT for shopping research. Google's SynthID tool can now watermark and identify AI-generated images from its Gemini model. In other technology news, a RAM shortage is causing market prices to increase. Drones are transforming marine mammal research. In news from Israel, Samsung is in talks to acquire autotech firm Autotalks, cybersecurity company Skybox Security is highlighted as a profitable unicorn, and the US Army is acquiring Israeli smart shooter technology. The country is also addressing its budget by targeting uncollected taxes and has launched an accelerator for African entrepreneurs.https://www.theverge.com/news/825036/openai-chatgpt-atlas-arc-vertical-tabs-updatehttps://www.theverge.com/news/824786/google-gemini-synthid-ai-image-detectionhttps://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/flying-with-whales-drones-are-remaking-marine-mammal-researchhttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/rkd3ifalwehttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/b16k76bbbehttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/s1zimr11w11ghttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/bkeer1f11blhttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/b1jdhnwwwlhttps://www.theverge.com/news/828326/chatgpt-shopping-research-chatgpt-buyers-guidehttps://www.theverge.com/news/828337/ram-memory-shortage-crunch-market-prices-central-micro-center","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Rkigehv194-F_NBhoV6toQsZxDDsukTbxEIbOZRLEHo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNTU4/NzViYmUyNmJkMmEw/NjlmMGY5Njk2Mzgw/Yjc4OS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}