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Shopify is moving to make AI-assisted buying a mainstream channel by opening its merchants to direct checkout inside Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot — a shift that stitches conversational discovery and payment into a single flow and will be governed by a new interoperability layer...

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...

Alison Wagonfeld’s move from Google Cloud to NVIDIA as the chipmaker’s first-ever chief marketing officer marks a deliberate pivot: NVIDIA is now investing in a centralized, senior marketing function to translate its technical dominance in AI hardware into a broader, enterprise- and...

Microsoft’s new agentic commerce push folds checkout, catalog management and frontline operations into Copilot, promising to convert conversational intent into completed purchases while also automating the back‑office work that long frustrates merchants and B2B sellers. The announcement —...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just a helper for writing emails and summarizing web pages — it’s being shaped into a full shopping platform that can compare prices, track deals, surface cashback, and even complete purchases inside the Copilot interface, folding browser-era shopping tools into...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly moved from assistant to checkout lane: shoppers in the United States can now complete purchases directly inside Copilot conversations, with payments and merchant plumbing provided by partners including PayPal, Stripe and Shopify — and Etsy sellers already...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly shifted from assistant to checkout clerk, Google’s Gemini features are seeding deeper into Gmail and Workspace, Elon Musk’s Grok faces a severe moderation probe over image misuse, OPPO’s Reno 15 Pro lands with flagship-grade cameras and battery life, and RayNeo...

Microsoft’s Copilot Checkout is live in the U.S., and PayPal is one of the primary payment engines powering in‑chat purchases — a move that accelerates the shift from link‑based discovery to agentic commerce where AI agents discover, decide and complete purchases without redirecting shoppers to...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Copilot Checkout, a new AI-driven shopping and payment experience that lets consumers discover products and complete purchases directly inside the Copilot interface without being redirected to a retailer’s website. The feature, announced at the NRF 2026 retail...

PayPal’s technology is now a built‑in payment lane inside Microsoft’s Copilot: shoppers can discover, decide and complete purchases without leaving the Copilot experience, as PayPal announced it will power inventory surfacing, branded and guest checkout, and card acceptance for Copilot 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...

The messy truth about AI at work in 2026 is simple: having more models, agents, and extensions on your browser does not automatically make your day easier. The real wins come from designing a clear outcome, mapping the steps to get there, and orchestrating a small set of AI tools as reliable...

Just when conversational AI felt like a private, helpful companion, the advertising industry quietly began circling — and now the question at the heart of every marketer and product team is simple and urgent: can AI chatbots run ads without destroying consumer trust? The answer is not a single...

OpenAI’s big moves and Meta’s platform play have pushed the AI market from a scramble for models into a complex web of turf wars, multi‑billion‑dollar partnerships, and regulatory flashpoints—an industry shift that’s visible in three compact themes: compute and infrastructure, distribution and...

Microsoft Copilot’s holiday push — the playful “12 Days of Eggnog Mico” series — represents a subtle but significant shift in how big tech uses generative AI to connect with families and reshape seasonal marketing. Over the December run, Copilot published daily, kid-friendly explainer posts and...

The shift to permanent remote and hybrid work has forced organizations to rethink how they deliver productivity, collaboration, and security — and the fastest route many companies are taking is through AI-powered tools integrated directly into the employee experience. What began as point...

Shopify’s Winter ’26 push and its Q3 results together sketch a rare moment when product momentum, profitable unit economics, and strategic partnerships converge — creating a credible path for the company to move from platform leader to foundational commerce infrastructure in the AI era...

Microsoft’s Copilot briefly traded its productivity blazer for a holiday sweater this season: a time‑limited “Eggnog Mode” that dresses the expressive Mico avatar in seasonal visuals, softens Copilot’s tone, and pushes a 12‑day micro‑engagement cadence designed for light, family‑friendly...

Enterprise IT leaders choosing an industrial automation and control platform in 2025 face a familiar paradox: the technology that can deliver the most dramatic efficiency, safety, and sustainability gains is also the one that increases their attack surface, operational complexity, 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...