New Delhi: OpenAI has quietly taken a big step into online shopping by bringing checkout straight into ChatGPT. For now, this update is rolling out only to users in the United States, but the move is already sparking conversations about how people may start buying things online. I was struck by how natural this feels, like asking a friend what gift to buy and then just tapping to pay right there instead of hopping across websites.

The new feature, called Instant Checkout, connects to Etsy sellers right away and will soon reach over a million Shopify merchants, including popular brands such as Glossier and Skims. Payments are powered by Stripe, and the underlying technology has been published as open source so others can plug into the system too.

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