agentic shopping

commercetools’ new AgenticLift is a pragmatic, non-disruptive bridge between legacy commerce estates and the emerging world of AI-driven shopping: a lightweight, standalone “agentic” layer that exposes catalogs, pricing, and transaction logic to AI assistants so enterprises can be discovered...

Algolia’s presence at Shoptalk Luxe 2026 crystallizes a clear industry pivot: discovery is moving off the website and into AI-driven, agentic surfaces, and Algolia is pitching itself as the plumbing that will keep luxury brands visible, accurate, and in control as that shift accelerates...

Shopify and Google’s new Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) marks a decisive move to make AI agents first-class participants in commerce, wiring conversational assistants into product discovery, checkout and post‑purchase flows without the bespoke integrations that have long burdened merchants...

Google’s unveiling of the Universal Commerce Protocol marks a decisive push to make AI agents first-class participants in online shopping, enabling conversational interfaces to not only recommend products but to complete purchases, manage payments, and handle post‑purchase workflows without...

Google has unveiled the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to let AI agents carry a customer from discovery through checkout and post‑purchase support without stitching together bespoke integrations for every assistant and merchant. Background The last 18 months have...