agentic commerce

Shopify’s Winter ’26 rollout moves AI product discovery from experiment to operational plumbing by letting merchants publish structured product data that generative AI assistants can read — and by enabling shoppers to complete purchases inside chat interfaces such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and...

Shopify’s Agentic Storefronts, Klarna’s Agentic Product Protocol, Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite and a raft of logistics, marketplace and fraud‑prevention tools announced in mid‑December mark a decisive shift: the ecommerce stack is being rebuilt around agents — conversational AIs that...

Shopify’s Winter ’26 push turns a nascent idea — letting AI assistants not just recommend products but actually sell them inside conversations — into a platform-ready reality with a new feature set called Agentic Storefronts, and it does so by turning merchant catalogs into machine-readable...

OpenAI and Instacart have taken the next step toward turning conversational AI into a full‑service personal shopper: Instacart’s app now runs inside ChatGPT with an embedded Instant Checkout flow that lets users go from recipe idea to paid grocery order without leaving the chat. Background /...

OpenAI and Instacart have taken a big step toward turning ChatGPT from a recipe and planning tool into a full shopping assistant: users can now compile grocery lists, pick items from local stores, choose delivery or pickup options, set tips, and pay directly inside ChatGPT thanks to an Instacart...

The holiday shopping season of 2025 has arrived with a seismic shift in one of the web’s oldest routines: discovering a product, comparing prices, and checking out. This year, AI assistants and agentic automation have moved beyond proof‑of‑concept demos into real shopping surfaces that can...

Ashley Furniture’s decision to make the entire shopping journey — from discovery to checkout — available inside Perplexity’s conversational interface, with PayPal powering payment, is a decisive bet on a new commerce model that industry watchers call agentic commerce: AI-driven discovery fused...

commercetools has introduced Agentic Jumpstart, a packaged enterprise offering designed to help large retailers and brands move quickly into “agentic commerce” — the emerging channel where AI assistants and autonomous agents discover, recommend, and transact on behalf of customers. Announced in...

AI is no longer an optional layer on top of enterprise systems — it is actively remaking the architecture, behavior, and business case for modern ERP, turning what used to be a passive transaction ledger into a continuous, predictive decision engine that can automate work, reduce cost, and...

Shopify’s latest earnings call painted a clear, disruptive picture: AI is moving from experiment to commerce channel, and Shopify says traffic from AI tools to its merchants is up roughly 7× since January, while orders attributed to AI search and agents have risen about 11× — a claim the company...

Agentic shopping—where an AI assistant not only recommends products but completes the purchase for you inside the chat—has abruptly moved from pilot projects and design decks to live commerce surfaces this year, and it’s reshaping how merchants, platforms, and IT teams must think about...

Shopify’s latest earnings call revealed a seismic shift: traffic from AI tools to Shopify stores has climbed roughly 7x since January, and orders attributed to AI-powered search and agents have increased by about 11x, a signal that agentic commerce — AI agents that discover, select and complete...

Shopify’s third-quarter results arrived as a statement of momentum: gross merchandise volume (GMV) and revenue both surged roughly 32% year‑over‑year, while the company doubled down on an AI‑first narrative — pushing Sidekick and agent integrations with major assistants into the center of its...

Agentic commerce has moved out of concept slides and into live rollouts: conversational assistants can now not only recommend products but also complete purchases inside the chat window, powered by new standards, tokenized payments, and platform partnerships that promise frictionless buying —...

Shopify is betting the future of commerce on AI agents: the company told investors and the press that traffic from AI tools to Shopify storefronts has jumped sevenfold since January, and that purchases attributed to AI-powered search are up 11×, while announcing deeper integrations with ChatGPT...

Shopify’s latest public briefing paints a clear picture: AI is no longer a boutique experiment for discovery — it’s becoming a primary commerce channel, and the company is already seeing traffic and order signals that insist merchants prepare for a very different e-commerce stack. Background /...

Microsoft, OpenAI and the hyperscale investors that bankroll them turned a single week of headlines into a clear picture of where the AI industry is headed: assistants that behave like companions, commerce that happens inside chat windows, and a rush to build the physical infrastructure those...

Checkout.com’s decision to adopt Microsoft Azure as the backbone of its payments platform marks one of the most consequential cloud migrations in fintech this year — a multi‑year, strategic collaboration that promises faster, more secure payment processing for enterprise merchants and positions...

OpenAI’s latest update turns ChatGPT from a conversational assistant into an extensible platform where you can literally “chat with apps” — embedding interactive mini‑apps, stateful workflows, and even checkout flows directly inside a single chat session. The move, announced during OpenAI’s 2025...

OpenAI’s latest moves at DevDay mark a decisive push to turn ChatGPT from a conversational assistant into a full-fledged platform — one that runs third‑party “mini apps,” supports direct purchases via an embedded checkout flow, and offers developers an SDK and app directory to build inside the...