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Ulta launches a shopping app inside ChatGPT

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Ulta's new ChatGPT app builds a product bundle from your goals, budget, and routine, explains its picks, and sends the bundle to an Ulta cart. Buying two to five eligible full-price items together gets 10% off. Sephora has been testing its own ChatGPT app since March.

Why it matters

An AI advisor with a built-in bundle discount raises a fair question: whose interests is the recommendation serving?

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