Andy Halliday

And it enables, among other things, voice calls to stores.

So the let Google call feature is an AI agent that will call local stores to check availability and promotions and then send you a summary.

wow that's pretty cool uh and it also has you know a bunch of other features price tracking if you want to kind of let the assistant start start to you know watch a certain product and see when you have an opportunity to buy it and give it authority to buy it when it reaches a certain threshold yeah okay and uh they have this agentic checkout which uses google pay of course uh so

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Very Merry, Merry Christmas to everyone.

You're going to be able to shop your do your Christmas shopping with with Google.

Yeah.

What you're describing to me is part of this progression toward you having a personal agent.

that has integration with your calendar and your knowledge base and it understands where you've been before, it has memory, so it's going to provide all those things.

And I think that's outside of the travel planner that's on a major portal like Google.

So to that point, this past summer, I did a trip to the East Coast and I used GenSpark to do all of the planning, including determining where in the flexible routing, there were things that would be of interest to me.

And it had that flexibility.

instruction from me, like, you know, give me the full picture of all this stuff.

And it was really quite satisfying to have that develop a really complete set of possibilities, including all the specific flights and other things like car rental, et cetera.

Well, the big top of the newsletters news today is the release yesterday of GPT 5.1.

So GPT-5 has replaced with a router kind of logic almost every other model.

And recently, I've started to notice that model developers who've proliferated their model versions are starting to deprecate the older models just because they're falling into disuse.

But one of the problems that's emerged is a lot of complaining, even on our show, about GPT-5 and its behaviors.

And GPT-5.1 is a very fast release to try to address some of those issues.

But it was really released and discussed in a beautiful article, basically, in OpenAI's