mAIn Street #139: Instacart's AI-Assisted Dynamic Pricing Could Push Grocery Prices 23% Higher, Study Says; Apple's Inaction on AI Could Be Turning Into a Strength


DECEMBER 10, 2025

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. That may be Apple's approach with AI. The company has sat on its hands for so long that AI bubble fears may finally be working in its favor.

That, and AI dynamic pricing is on the way. A new study finds that the Instacart-ChatGPT partnership could push grocery prices 23% higher.

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  • PromptCraft: Assess Your Profession, 32 ChatGPT Shortcuts, Professor Notes Interpreter, and Spotify-Style End-of-Year Recap for Your Favorite Chatbot
  • THE HEADLINES: ​Apple's Inaction on AI Could Be Turning Into a Strength; Microsoft Will Invest $17.5 Billion in India for AI and Cloud Infrastructure; President Calls for 'ONE' AI Rule; Instacart's AI-Assisted Dynamic Pricing Could Push Grocery Prices 23% Higher, Study Says
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PROMPTS: Assess Your Profession, 32 ChatGPT Shortcuts, Professor Notes Interpreter, and Spotify-Style End-of-Year Recap for Your Favorite Chatbot

  • Organizational Reality Decoder profession analysis mega-prompt: Organizational Reality Decoder is a meta-prompt that maps any role inside a company as if it lived in a gravity field. It generates semantic, political, and blame “heat maps”, contrasts narratives with technical reality, and exposes distortions, incentives, and failure domains around that profession.
  • Thirty-two ChatGPT shortcut commands for better output: This post lists thirty-two lightweight slash-style modifiers like /ELI5, /EXEC SUMMARY, /JARGON, /STEP-BY-STEP, and /FORMAT AS TABLE. Each can be prepended to normal prompts to quickly control depth, tone, structure, and reasoning without rewriting long instructions every time.
  • Sane Everyday Meta-Prompt for reliable ChatGPT sessions: A compact meta-prompt that wraps ChatGPT replies in a Goal → Steps → Result structure with a quick pre-check and brief self-review. It improves consistency, clarifies intent, and reduces roleplay theatrics, making everyday problem‑solving chats more structured without feeling like an overengineered “god mode” system.
  • High-accuracy academic note summarization prompt template: Prompt + reply pair that turns ChatGPT into a highly constrained academic summarizer. It prioritizes perfect factual preservation, keeps terminology unchanged, compresses repetition, enforces structured bullet‑point output, and even adds an optional safeguard line for professors who are extremely picky about wording.
  • Spotify-style end-of-year ChatGPT usage recap: A single meta-prompt that asks your model to analyze an entire year of chat history like Spotify Wrapped. It computes stats such as average conversation length and topic drift, then presents playful but informative highlights about how you actually used ChatGPT over the year.

HIGHLIGHTS: ​Apple's Inaction on AI Could Be Turning Into a Strength; Microsoft Will Invest $17.5 Billion in India for AI and Cloud Infrastructure; President Calls for 'ONE' AI Rule; Instacart's AI-Assisted Dynamic Pricing Could Push Grocery Prices 23% Higher, Study Says

  1. Apple’s Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows Weary of Spending
  2. Microsoft is investing $17.5 billion in India for AI and cloud infrastructure
  3. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice
  4. Accenture and Anthropic Launch Multi-Year Partnership to Drive Enterprise AI Innovation and Value Across Industries
  5. Deploying an AI Factory for Regulated Industries with Northrop Grumman
  6. Cursor’s CEO Reveals 80% Of Support Now Fully Automated As Internal Help Desk Replaces Human Work
  7. ‘Hidden’ geothermal energy site discovered in Nevada desert using AI, company says
  8. Instacart’s AI-enabled pricing may bump up your grocery costs by as much as 23%, study says
  9. Trump approves the sale of more advanced Nvidia computer chips used in AI to China
  10. AI-designed antibodies created from scratch
  11. GigaTIME: Scaling tumor microenvironment modeling using a virtual population generated by multimodal AI
  12. AI videos have flooded social media. No one was ready.
  13. OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation
  14. Microsoft Deepens Its Commitment to Canada with Landmark $19B AI Investment
  15. The War Department Unleashes AI on New GenAI.mil Platform
  16. Commission opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in the use of online content for AI purposes
  17. US FDA qualifies first AI tool to help speed liver disease drug development
  18. Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of Verint, a Leader in AI-Driven Customer Experience Automation
  19. Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds
  20. 100 Notion AI Agent Use Cases
  21. ‘ONE RULE’: Trump says he’ll sign an executive order blocking state AI laws despite bipartisan pushback
  22. 7 Security Best Practices for MCP
  23. The Most Popular AI Headshot Generator
  24. Georgia-Pacific Reduces Unplanned Downtime by 30% While Improving Quality and Safety with SAS Viya and AWS
  25. Warby Parker, Google to launch AI-powered smart glasses in 2026
  26. AMD CEO: AI is “nowhere near its peak capability”
  27. The first AI-assisted IVF babies are now being born
  28. SoftBank, Nvidia looking to invest in Skild AI at $14 billion valuation, sources say
  29. Data centers for AI could nearly triple San Jose’s energy use. Who foots the bill?
  30. ‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support
  31. The AI Bubble Will Pop — And Why That Doesn’t Matter
  32. The Chinese finance whizz whose DeepSeek AI model stunned the world
  33. Physicists Split on AI Use in Peer Review
  34. Hawley sponsors bill to track AI layoffs as WashU expert warns of ‘great AI replacement’
  35. As Lawmakers Push to Regulate AI in Advertising, This State Agency is Running AI Ads
  36. DeSantis: Trump’s AI order ‘can’t preempt’ states from taking action
  37. U.S. Authorities Shut Down Major China-Linked AI Tech Smuggling Network
  38. Google pushes back on a report saying ads are coming to Gemini
  39. AI-Automated Threat Hunting Brings GhostPenguin Out of the Shadows
  40. Thales and Cohere Partner to Accelerate AI Integration for Naval In-Service Support in Canada

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