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Merchants on Shopify, Advanced, or Plus plans now receive free shipping insurance on all Managed Markets shipping labels purchased in the Shopify admin for up to $200. Additional optional insurance can be purchased for all plans up to $5000.
\nShopify owners can now manage all Shopify Finance products including Shopify balance, equity, credit, disbursements, taxes, and bill pay in the Shopify app in all countries where Shopify Payments is supported. Get access to all your Shopify Finance accounts, cards, and offers wherever your business takes you. Apply for loans and business financing to fuel business growth. Transfer funds, control cash flow, track payments, and manage your cards with ease. The new “Finance” section can be found in the overflow menu on the navigation bar under “Finance”. The “Payouts” menu item will be removed and you will be able to access your payouts through the Finance tab.
\nShopify added an “Apps” tab to the checkout and accounts editor to easily manage all your app blocks in one place. Now you can quickly configure and view new functionality on Checkout, Thank you, and Order status pages using only the appropriate app blocks in any section of the page.
\nShopify Combined Listings app users can now use the Shopify Search & Discovery app to customize the display of combined listings in search results, predictive search, and product recommendations. You can flexibly choose whether to display only child products, parent products, or both.
\nShopify has updated Shopify’s standard product taxonomy with additional categories, attributes, and values so you can categorize your products more accurately. The taxonomy is an evolving library that is based on user feedback and market analysis. The latest version includes updates for product areas such as apparel and accessories, home and garden, sporting goods, and more.
\nShopify has updated its integration with UPS to show real rates when buying UPS shipping labels in Shopify Shipping. Real UPS shipping rates when buying labels offer deeper discounts on smaller packages with UPS® Ground and UPS® Ground Saver. We’ve removed the Shopify plan discount line from the label purchase summary to speed up the process. You will still receive discounts on all UPS shipping labels purchased through Shopify Shipping.
\nShopify Tax now supports automated filing for U.S. sales tax returns. This will help busy sellers further streamline sales tax compliance and simplify the U.S. filing process. Shopify Tax automated filing integrates directly with your store to prepare tax returns with increased accuracy. You have the flexibility to choose where to file your return and view it directly from the admin area – and all for a favorable flat fee per return.
\nShopify has implemented a unified user authentication experience when performing important actions in Admin, such as deleting employee accounts, transferring store ownership, etc. This update protects your business from session hijacking, allowing you to stay on track – no need to navigate to another location or perform a complete re-login.
\nA new “Cancel order” action that cancels an order and cancels payment authorization replaces the previous version of this action. The new version includes the “Refund items” option, which will refund the amount paid by the customer, including the cost of goods, duties, and shipping. The previous action, now renamed “Cancel order (deprecated)” uses a different API that does not void payment authorization and provides separate options for “Refund items” and “Refund shipping”. Shopify recommends updating existing workflows to utilize the new action.
\nUpdate: Shopify has increased the length of the inventory adjustment history table for a product or variant from 90 days to 180 days.
\nThis is the table that appears on the product or variant adjustment history page and contains the most recent inventory adjustment history data.
\nThe Activity column displays the event that triggered the inventory adjustment, such as a new order, return, or manually selected reason for the inventory adjustment.
\nThe numbers under each stock status show first the adjusted quantity and then the new total quantity. A dash indicates that the adjustment did not affect this column.
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A new AI service for “parsing” music tracks.
\nThe Mikrotakt neural engine can split any track into vocals, instrumentals, bass, drums, and other audio tracks.
\nIn addition, you can upscale vocal tracks to clean up the voice and adjust the pitch. This feature is ideal for musicians and content makers.
\nThe new Chinese model DeepSeek-V3 becomes a competitor to ChatGPT:
\n– registration requires only your email and password
\n– the neural is quite fast: answers are generated in seconds
\n– Thinking mode, where AI turns into an academic on any topic
\n– the model can read diagrams and generate any texts
\n– files of different sizes can be uploaded
\n– the neuron is good at working with code
\n– absolutely free
\nHailuo AI from China can clone any voice without censorship in a few seconds. Its library includes more than 300 voices in different languages and intonations. The model also allows for full customization: you can change the tone, speed, and timbre and add sound effects.
\nThe Chinese have released a worthy competitor to ChatGPT.
\nThe Qwen2.5-Plus chatbot provides accurate answers, can read documents and images, and is completely free of charge.
\nKrea allows rotating models in its “Photoshop”
\nKrea developers have come up with an incredible feature for their neuro-Photoshop: you can drop any object and edit its position in 3D space.
\nThe Upscayl neuron has received a 16x upscale, so now it can save even the most hopeless photos. The download is free.
\nThe Wegic neural network has become even cooler.
\nNow websites are generated in seconds, and all your edits can be made with simple queries.
\nYou just throw in a promo and you have a perfectly(?) designed website.
\nA working AI meme generator.
\nThe Brainrot neuron follows trends, selects relevant images, and produces memes that are even funny to read. And all this is free.
\nGoogle has released a top free guide to AI agents.
\nIt contains everything: basic knowledge, tools, architecture, training methods, and a step-by-step recipe for creating agents on LangChain and LangGraph.
\nIt is a cool service for learning languages with an AI interlocutor.
\nThe Lingocat neuron imitates the native speaker, gives feedback, and has tasks to improve skills. And all this is free of charge.
\nThe free neural from the Chinese outperforms(?) ChatGPT.
\nA new model called R1 has been released that outperforms the best version of ChatGPT. R1 is twice as powerful as the previous version and it has literally everything you need: programming, math, rewriting, and everything else. It’s worth noting that if you look at the graph of how it “outperforms”, it doesn’t encourage you to switch from OpenAI to the Chinese neural.
\nUniversal AI photo editor.
\nGenerating, replacing, or deleting details, styling, changing the background, and upscaling – and this is not the whole list of functions of the new and free Dzine neural.
\nPrompt generator for ChatGPT
\nPromptEngine works according to the official recommendations of OpenAI. The service also supports other language models: Claude, Gemini, LLama, and Mistral, which can be selected from a list.
\nOpenAI President showed a feature for the o1 model.
\nAccording to Greg Brockman, the o1 model works a bit differently than other types of AI, and to achieve high performance, you need to follow a certain plan in writing promos:
\nthe goal, response format, warning, and context.
\n(The Anatomy of an o1 Prompt attached an example image)
\nChatGPT can now write first.
\nThe neuron will remind you of important things like a real assistant. For example, in the morning, it can provide a ready-made excuse for being late for work, and in the evening, a convincing explanation for a deadline shift.
\nSo far, only 10 regular tasks are available, but by the end of the week, all paid users will receive the new feature.
\nOpenAI offers free tokens for ChatGPT.
\nHowever, there is a caveat: in exchange, they ask for permission to use your promos to train models.
\nThe offer lasts until the end of February. Pro users can get up to 1 million tokens per day, and mini-version users can get up to 10 million!
\nTrump has canceled Biden’s decree on control over AI development.
\nThe document, signed in 2023, required developers to share test results with the government to reduce risks. However, Republicans insisted that this restricted freedom of speech and hindered progress. Now, AI development is unrestricted again.
\nChina will organize a competition between robots and humans
\nIn April, China will host the world’s first half marathon where people will compete with robots. The race will involve 12,000 runners and dozens of androids. Technology versus biology is a real race of the era.
\nAI tokens soar after the Stargate project announcement.
\nOn January 23, Trump announced a $500 billion investment from the private sector in the development of AI infrastructure in the United States. As part of this project, OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle will create a joint venture called Stargate. Immediately after this announcement, the AI and big data token market showed significant growth:
\n– AI16Z and AI Rig Complex (ARC) grew by 30% per day
\n– GRIFFAIN and ZEREBRO tokens doubled in price
\n– MetamonkeyAi (MMAI) showed an increase of 152.25%
\n– FLock.io (FLOCK) – by 57%
\nThe smartest o3-mini model will be free!
\nSam Altman said that this neural will be able to solve complex problems in programming, math, and data analysis – all for free.
\nFeatures of o3-mini:
\n– advanced analytical abilities
\n– accelerated data processing speed
\n– ease of use for everyone
\nThe release is planned for the near future.
\nOracle founder supports AI totalitarianism
\nBillionaire Larry Ellison stated that the total surveillance system with artificial intelligence based on cameras, drones, and police recorders will force citizens to “behave in the best way possible”.
\nOracle has recently entered into a partnership with OpenAI and Softbank. Digital dystopia is becoming a reality.
\nThe first Chinese base for robot training was opened in Shanghai
\nThey will learn to help around the house, play football, and assemble cars.
\nThe data obtained in the process will be shared with various companies.
\nCurrently, the center has more than 100 androids and plans to expand to a thousand by 2027.
\nChatGPT can now create any kind of application – a new Canvas feature has been released that runs the code right in the browser.
\n– There are no limits to ideas – we invent and ask AI to draw up a detailed project description.
\n– Copy and paste the request into the chat with the neuron, but add the “/canvas” command at the end.
\n– AI will produce a fully working application in React and HTML in a second – you can test it right away!
\n– There are no limits or restrictions – you can even clone YouTube in your browser.
\nThe feature is free.
\nTop 5 promos for working with any amount of information – the neural will squeeze out all the “water” from the source and give you only concise, verified facts:
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