agentic commerce

Microsoft has unveiled a sweeping set of retail-focused AI agents, templates, and checkout services that fold conversational commerce, catalog automation, and store operations into the Copilot ecosystem — starting with a U.S. rollout of Copilot Checkout and new Copilot Studio templates for Brand...

Microsoft’s new Copilot Checkout turns conversational browsing into a direct path to purchase, letting shoppers buy inside Copilot without being redirected to merchant sites — and it locks Microsoft into a high-stakes competition with OpenAI, Google and Amazon over who owns discovery, checkout...

Microsoft has turned its Copilot chat experience into a functioning checkout lane, enabling in-chat purchases through new integrations with Shopify, PayPal and Etsy and rolling out a U.S.-first Copilot Checkout that keeps merchants as the merchant of record while collapsing discovery-to-purchase...

Shopify’s Winter ’26 “RenAIssance” Edition frames a deliberate pivot: turn AI from an assistive feature set into the plumbing of commerce itself, and make millions of merchant catalogs discoverable, shoppable and auditable inside conversational agents such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Microsoft...

Big Tech’s latest moves make one thing clear: AI is no longer a single, monolithic capability bolted onto apps — it is the connective tissue weaving together creativity, commerce and workplace automation, with companies shifting from one-size-fits-all models to specialized AI stacks and...

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...