ChatGPT adds shopping help, intensifying Google rivalry

OpenAI announced Monday that ChatGPT is now helping users find products online, enhancing its challenge to Google amid regulatory pressure on the search giant’s market dominance.The new shopping capability further blurs the line between AI chatbots and search engines, signalling OpenAI’s ambition to compete with Google in a market the latter has controlled for decades.

“Search has become one of our most popular and fastest growing features, with over 1 billion web searches just in the past week,” the San Francisco-based company said in a post on…