Do you often say to yourself, Gosh, it’s hard to buy things online? Me neither. But the folks at shopping site PureWow are on the case anyway, saving you from the drudgery of shopping carts and Buy Now buttons with “wowtext”, which lets you respond to an offer by texting back one number, showing how many you’d like to buy. I feel less tired just thinking about it.

The generative AI world is moving so quickly that it’s hard to know what’s worth reporting. But cross-medium content creation is still pretty new, so let’s note that Microsoft’s Bing search engine / chatbot can now create images from text prompts. That’s pretty impressive, at least for this week.