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Shopify’s latest product pivot places conversational AI — not the storefront — at the center of modern retail, turning chat agents into discovery and checkout surfaces through a set of interoperable standards and partnerships that include Google and Microsoft. The company’s Winter ’26 “Agentic...

Microsoft’s Defender platform now adds an AI-driven incident prioritization layer aimed squarely at reducing SOC overload by turning a noisy incident queue into an explainable, ranked worklist that analysts can act on with speed and confidence. Background Security operations centers (SOCs) have...

Microsoft has quietly moved the line where discovery ends and purchase begins: Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents turn Copilot from a research and recommendation surface into a transactional storefront, and they arrive at a moment when multiple industry players are racing to become the payments...

Stibo Systems’ announcement that it will demo AI-powered “personal shopper” agents at NRF 2026 — built by pairing Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Fabric with Stibo’s master data management (MDM) platform — is a concrete example of how vendors are racing to turn generative AI from a...

Microsoft and PayPal have quietly turned Copilot from an adviser into a checkout lane: Copilot Checkout now lets U.S. shoppers complete purchases inside a Copilot conversation — without being redirected to a merchant’s website — with PayPal, Stripe and Shopify providing the payment and catalog...

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...

The holiday shopping season has become a proving ground for four of the biggest AI platforms — ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot — but a hands‑on test with a simple request for an Android smartwatch exposes a recurring problem: these assistants can be impressively...

The holiday shopping season’s shiny new helpers are showing an old‑data problem: the leading AI shopping assistants from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and smaller rivals routinely surface last‑generation devices unless prompted to fetch “the latest” — a failure that can cost shoppers money, time...

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...

Microsoft’s executive reshuffle this week — elevating Judson Althoff to lead the company’s commercial business while Satya Nadella steps back into what he called “founder‑mode” to focus on datacenter build‑out, systems architecture and AI science — is more than a personnel move; it’s a strategic...

AI shopping assistants can trim real dollars off your receipts by automating the tedious parts of bargain hunting: they watch prices, test coupons, surface cash-back opportunities, and can even time purchases when a product is most likely to be cheapest. In the past two years these browser and...

Global Growth Insights’ countdown of the “Top 21 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software Companies in 2025” crystallizes a broader truth: AI has moved from pilot projects to the strategic center of enterprise technology stacks, but the numbers and rankings that circulate in commercial roundups...

Curated for You and Microsoft have quietly activated a first-of-its-kind, lifestyle‑led AI fashion experience inside Microsoft Copilot, delivering visually composed, shoppable outfit recommendations in response to natural‑language styling prompts and linking those looks directly to participating...

Microsoft Copilot now speaks fashion: with a new integration powered by Curated for You, users can ask natural-language questions like “What should I wear to a beach wedding?” and receive context-aware, shoppable outfit recommendations inside the Copilot interface. Background Microsoft’s...

Bauducco’s decision to adopt Microsoft Copilot — implemented through a strategic engagement with Cloud Target — marks a pragmatic, metrics‑driven push to modernize business processes across HR, finance and IT while explicitly measuring the financial impact of AI adoption with a purpose‑built...

Nvidia’s quiet retreat from a direct cloud play marks a meaningful strategic pivot: DGX Cloud — once pitched as NVIDIA’s own AI supercomputer service for enterprises — is being repurposed largely as internal infrastructure, while the company leans into a marketplace model (DGX Cloud Lepton) that...

Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG Göttingen) has moved from proof‑of‑concept to production by expanding its deployment of Sectra’s enterprise imaging technology to include the Sectra Amplifier Service, a managed AI‑as‑a‑service hosted in Microsoft Azure that integrates validated third‑party AI...

Microsoft has unveiled Copilot Mode in its Edge browser, marking a significant advancement in AI-driven web navigation. This feature integrates artificial intelligence directly into the browsing experience, offering users a more intuitive and efficient way to interact with the web. Key Features...

The explosion of generative AI has permanently changed the way businesses, creators, and everyday users interact with technology, and ChatGPT’s rise to prominence has inspired a rapidly expanding field of conversational AI tools. Yet, as we move further into 2025, it is clearer than ever that...

Microsoft’s unveiling of “Deep Research” within the Azure AI Foundry marks a significant acceleration in how enterprises approach knowledge work, automated research, and data-driven decision-making. In a digital ecosystem increasingly shaped by generative AI, the launch introduces new paradigms...