Instacart ChatGPT shopping, Grok flags appendicitis, Google Workspace AI 🤖

Weekly top AI News

Author

Diego Cabezas
December 09, 2025

Summary TL;DR

  • Instacart groceries now shoppable entirely in ChatGPT, powering AI commerce.

  • Grok chatbot flagged appendicitis after ER miss, prompting lifesaving surgery.

  • Google Workspace Studio lets anyone build AI helpers across apps.

 

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AI News

Shop Instacart Groceries Directly Inside ChatGPT 🛒

OpenAI and Instacart are rolling out a new grocery shopping experience entirely within ChatGPT. Users can brainstorm meals, build a grocery list, and check out without leaving the chat.

The move expands OpenAI’s “agentic commerce” push, using AI to research and buy products, and adds another potential revenue stream via small merchant fees, as ChatGPT integrates with more apps like Booking.com, Target, and Spotify.

Grok AI helps catch life‑threatening appendicitis after ER miss 🤖

A 49‑year‑old man says xAI’s Grok may have saved his life after an ER misdiagnosed his severe abdominal pain as acid reflux. When medication failed, he detailed his symptoms to Grok, which warned of possible appendicitis and urged a CT scan.

The scan found an appendix close to rupturing, leading to urgent surgery and full relief, highlighting how consumer AI tools might augment frontline medical care.

Google’s New Workspace Studio Lets Anyone Build AI Helpers 🚀

Google Workspace Studio is now generally available, letting anyone create AI “agents” that automate everyday tasks across Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Drive and more, without coding.

Users can describe what they want in plain language, start from templates, or connect to other business apps. Built into existing Workspace plans, Studio follows Google’s enterprise security and privacy commitments, keeping customer data protected and separate from model training.

Prompt example for the week

Great prompt for ChatGPT - Learning Plan ⚡

Design a customizable learning and study mastery plan to help me improve how I learn and reach my top goal: [insert your specific learning goal, e.g., mastering Python basics, passing an exam, or finishing a course]. Make the plan adaptable for [insert number of days or weeks], with clear daily or weekly milestones and concrete tasks. Include evidence-based study methods (e.g., spaced repetition, active recall), strategies to beat procrastination and distractions, motivational systems (e.g., mini-rewards, accountability check-ins), short reflection prompts at regular intervals, and recommendations for free tools or apps to support focus, note-taking, and review.

AI tool of the week

Gemini - Make and share an app

  • This AI chatbot from google is better than ChatGPT based on LMArena.com.

  • Example: Go to gemini.google.com/app

    • Sign in with google

    • Make sure the model is ‘thinking’ not ’fast’.

    • In the tools selector in the text bar, select ‘Canvas’

    • Prompt: “make an app: Pomodoro Focus Timer app with the following strict requirements:

      Everything must be inside one standalone HTML file (no external libraries, no frameworks).

      Clean, modern, minimal UI, centered layout, responsive for desktop and mobile.

      Three modes: Focus (25 min), Short Break (5 min), Long Break (15 min) with clear buttons to switch.

      Start, Pause, Reset controls.

      Visible countdown timer with smooth second-by-second updates.

      Session counter that increments after each completed Focus session.

      Distraction Log: a small text input where users can quickly write what distracted them during a session. Logged entries appear in a scrolling list.

      Use localStorage to persist session count and distraction notes after refresh.

      Subtle UI animations for button presses and mode switching.

      No sounds, no notifications.

      Code must be clean, commented, and easy to modify.“

    • Click on ‘SHARE’ and you can share your APP as a link, you can play with this example here: https://gemini.google.com/share/480115764a9c

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