agentic commerce

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...

Checkout.com’s decision to adopt Microsoft Azure as the backbone for its AI-driven payments platform marks a clear inflection point in enterprise payments infrastructure — a multi-year technology collaboration that promises faster, more secure and more scalable payment flows for major merchants...

OpenAI has quietly but decisively blurred the line between conversational AI and commerce by rolling out “Instant Checkout” inside ChatGPT — a feature that lets U.S. users buy items from Etsy directly in-chat today, with support for more than a million Shopify merchants (including brands like...

Mastercard’s latest push into artificial intelligence marks a clear inflection point for payments: the company has moved from embedding AI into detection systems to enabling agentic commerce—where AI agents can negotiate, authorize and execute purchases on behalf of users—backed by new developer...

In a significant move towards integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into financial transactions, Mastercard and PayPal have recently unveiled initiatives aimed at enhancing commerce through AI-driven technologies. These developments mark a pivotal shift in how consumers and businesses...