Tech Pulse Daily

Curated by Dillip Chowdary • Jan 25, 2026

Today's Top Highlights

🗞️ Grokipedia in ChatGPT: TechCrunch reports ChatGPT is now sourcing real-time answers from Elon Musk’s open data initiative.
🌐 Universal Commerce Protocol: Google unveils open standard for agentic shopping (Deep Dive inside).
🧠 FunctionGemma Tuning: New no-code lab for perfecting strict agentic tool calling.
🤖 Multi-Agent Guide: Anthropic publishes framework for orchestrating AI swarms.

TechCrunch: ChatGPT Taps into Grokipedia

Reports surfaced today that OpenAI has begun indexing Grokipedia—Elon Musk's ambitious real-time knowledge base—to enhance ChatGPT's ability to answer questions about breaking news and emerging trends. This marks a significant shift in data sharing dynamics between the AI giants.

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Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

Google and industry partners have unveiled the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open-source standard designed to let AI agents "speak shopping" natively. This protocol connects consumer surfaces directly to business backends, solving the inventory hallucination problem.

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Google: FunctionGemma Tuning Lab

Google has released the FunctionGemma Tuning Lab on Hugging Face. This no-code tool helps developers fine-tune models to resolve "tool selection ambiguity," creating agents that strictly adhere to enterprise guidelines.

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Anthropic: Multi-Agent Systems Guide

Anthropic has published a comprehensive engineering guide on Multi-Agent Systems. It provides a decision matrix for developers to decide when to use monolithic agents versus specialized swarms for complex workflows.

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Quick Reads

Reddit Max Campaigns (Beta)

AI-powered ad performance platform launches to optimize audience insights.
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WhatsApp iOS History Sharing

New feature allows sharing recent chat history with new group members.
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Anthropic AI-Resistant Evals

Engineering team shares methods to prevent models from gaming benchmarks.
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Read: The new Universal Commerce Protocol deep dive to prepare your store.
Audit: Check your ad spend efficiency with Reddit's new AI tools.
Experiment: Try fine-tuning a small model in the FunctionGemma lab.