Whether you're ready or not, it's the time of year to start looking at holiday shopping deals. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner, and there are lots of flash sales on websites like Amazon.

Now, companies like Google are using artificial intelligence to enhance online shopping for consumers in Houston and beyond. Google's "Buy for Me" feature uses AI to monitor those deals to determine the best time to make a purchase. If you allow it to, Google will even make the purchase for you.

"So, you’re just setting the price, and AI does all that deal hunting for you," said Jala Tucker, a trends expert at Google. "You don’t really have to do the flash sales, like checking every hour to see when the deal is. AI really helps you kind of speed up that process." Sign up for th

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