Your ChatGPT agent can buy things now, but every purchase waits for you
When an AI agent buys something for you, two worries come up fast: that it’ll spend without asking, and that it’ll be holding your card number. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Wallet, introduced Friday, is built around both.
It’s rolling out first in dots, OpenAI’s always-on personal agents, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US who are 18 or older and have an eligible US-issued card. You add a card once. When your agent is ready to pay, nothing goes through until you approve that purchase with a security check such as Face ID.
Wallet doesn’t give your real card details to the agent or the store. They get a stand-in number from your card network instead, and your card’s usual rewards and eligible dispute protections still apply.
OpenAI says it plans to let agents buy on their own within spending limits or categories you set, but that isn’t available yet. It also warns that some sites may block agent purchases without meaning to, so if a purchase stalls, the store’s site may be what’s stopping it.
Google says Search now copes better with long, messy questions
You type a long, specific question into Google, the results answer only half of it, and you end up breaking it into two or three shorter searches. Google says Gemini 4 Hydrogen, its new model released Thursday, is better at that kind of question, and it’s rolling out to Search for all users globally.
Google points to three things it handles better: multi-part questions, typos and very specific requests. Think of one line that packs in a budget, a size and a deadline. It also says answers will be more visual and easier to scan, with a broader range of links.
In the Gemini app, Google says Hydrogen follows the tone and format you ask for more closely. Free users don’t choose it themselves. Google says they’re switched to it automatically when it’s appropriate for the prompt.
So the next time a detailed search comes back half right, ask the whole thing again in one go, in your own words, before splitting it up.