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Updates on the company and the wider Ai landscape.

  • What Meta’s Seller app means for Marketplace sellers

    What Meta’s Seller app means for Marketplace sellers

    NEWS

    On 24 July 2026, Meta launched Seller, a dedicated app for Facebook Marketplace sellers in which Meta AI writes the listing for you from your photos. What Meta’s Seller app means for Marketplace sellers in the UK, for now, is nothing you can download: it is United States only.

    Marketplace is ten years old this year and carries 430 million items listed each month globally, according to Meta’s own announcement. Seller pulls a seller’s listings, messages and selling history into one app, adds bulk listing, a single inbox threaded by item, and performance data on views, clicks, messages and sold listings. The part that matters is the listing step. In Meta’s words, “Upload photos and Meta AI will fill in the details like title, description, price suggestion, and category, so you can publish fast.” Meta AI is Meta’s own assistant, the same family of models behind its Muse Image generator. The app is on the App Store for people aged 18 and over in the United States, with Android testing underway.

    Can a UK seller use this yet?

    No, and there is no announced UK date, so treat the app itself as a heads-up rather than a plan. The useful part is not locked to Meta. Photograph the item, hand the photo to the free tier of ChatGPT or Gemini, and ask for a title, a short description and a suggested price range for the UK market, then paste the result into your normal Marketplace listing. That takes a couple of minutes and is the same job Seller is automating. Two honest caveats: an Ai price suggestion is a starting point, not a valuation, so sense-check it against what similar items have actually sold for, and read the description before you publish, because these tools will confidently guess a model number or a size they cannot see in the photo.

    Source: Meta, “Introducing Seller, an App for Facebook Marketplace Sellers”, 24 July 2026.

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  • OpenAI’s small business programme: what UK owners get

    OpenAI’s small business programme: what UK owners get

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    On 21 July 2026, OpenAI launched the ChatGPT for small business program, a training and partner scheme built around its ChatGPT Work tier. For a UK business, the useful parts are the free online guides and webinars. The in-person academies are United States only.

    The OpenAI small business programme is teaching and packaging, not a new product. It bundles four things: webinars showing ChatGPT Work being used across accounting, marketing and ecommerce, with the prompts and workflows demonstrated; in-person small business Ai academies held across the United States; a library of getting-started guides, customer stories and short videos; and skills and promotional offers from partners, named as Dropbox, Shopify, Intuit, Slack, Atlassian and Wix. ChatGPT Work is the paid tier that runs multi-step jobs rather than answering one question at a time, which we covered when it launched on 10 July.

    Does this apply to a UK business?

    Partly, and it costs nothing to find out. The webinars, guides and customer stories are online, so a UK owner can use them today. The academies are physical events in the United States, so ignore those. The partner skills only pay off if you already run one of those tools, and the whole programme assumes you are paying for ChatGPT Work, so treat it as a well-made sales push rather than free money. The honest use of an hour: watch one webinar in your own trade, copy two prompts into the ChatGPT you already have, and see whether the output is worth a subscription before you buy one.

    Source: OpenAI, “Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program”, 21 July 2026. OpenAI’s newsroom blocks automated readers, so the announcement was confirmed on OpenAI’s own news feed and against independent reports by PYMNTS and 9to5Mac.

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  • Gmail’s Help me write now takes your own instructions

    Gmail’s Help me write now takes your own instructions

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    On 14 July 2026, Google started rolling out a change to Help me write in Gmail. In plain terms, you can now fix an Ai email draft by typing your own instruction, instead of only picking a preset button.

    Help me write is the Gemini feature inside Gmail that drafts an email for you. Until now, once it produced a draft you could only tweak it with fixed buttons such as Polish and Shorten. The update adds a prompt bar: you type a follow-up in your own words, for example “make this warmer” or “add a line asking for the invoice by Friday”, and Gmail rewrites the draft on the spot, with undo and redo if you change your mind. Google is rolling it out now and expects every account to have it by 20 July 2026.

    Do I need to do anything?

    No. If your account already has Gemini in Gmail switched on, the prompt bar appears on its own as the rollout finishes. It is a paid Gemini feature, so it reaches Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans and personal Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers, not a free Gmail account. If you have it, the everyday win is small but real: instead of deleting a not-quite-right draft and starting over, you tell Gmail exactly what to change and let it do the retype.

    Source: Google Workspace Updates, “New refinement capabilities allow custom editing with Help me write in Gmail”

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