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This Tuesday morning, OpenAI's ChatGPT is experiencing widespread outages, with both free and paid users reporting accessibility issues and error messages across platforms. This comes as the company sets an ambitious goal of $100 billion in advertising revenue by the end of the decade, as investingLive reports. OpenAI plans to achieve this by expanding its query-based ad business into seven test markets, with Brazil, Mexico, and India next on the list. Despite the current disruptions, OpenAI continues to announce major partnerships. Both ibtimes.sg and Lapaas Voice confirm Getty Images shares soared over 200% after a new multi-year deal integrates Getty's licensed photos into ChatGPT's search. In a similar vein, Nykaa and OpenAI are partnering to bring conversational shopping to beauty and fashion, allowing users to shop directly within ChatGPT for personalized product picks. TechNave adds that Shopee support is now available directly through ChatGPT for users in Malaysia, making product research easier. But then, it's not just OpenAI in the spotlight. Elon Musk states that Tesla vehicles will soon allow Grok to control Full Self-Driving with voice commands, like "turn right here," within about three months, according to Tesla Oracle. Meanwhile, Dukascopy Bank is launching an AI-powered trading feature, letting clients use chat-based assistants like ChatGPT and Claude to execute trades and manage positions with natural language, as TradingView reports. For developers, both The GitHub Blog and blockchain.news confirm GitHub Copilot CLI's redesigned terminal interface is now generally available. This update offers a new tabbed layout for direct interaction with GitHub, alongside guided configuration and improved accessibility. What nobody expected: Amazon is heavily integrating AI into its four-day Prime Day event, which started today. Let's Data Science projects sales could hit $21.6 billion, a 5% increase from last year, with nearly half of online shoppers using AI for recent purchases. This means that while some AI services face technical hiccups, the integration of AI into your daily life, from shopping to driving to managing your finances, is accelerating rapidly, potentially changing how you interact with technology and make purchases.