ai shopping assistant

Debenhams Group’s decision to let shoppers discover, receive personalised recommendations and complete purchases entirely inside the PayPal app marks a significant step in the shift from mobile-first retail to agentic, AI-driven shopping experiences that compress discovery and checkout into a...

Across campuses, Microsoft Teams for Education is no longer just a place for chat and video calls — when deliberately configured and governed, it can act as the central nervous system for student engagement, academic collaboration, administration, telephony, and AI-driven insights that together...

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 has arrived with a new cast of digital helpers: smarter AI assistants and autonomous shopping agents from Amazon, Walmart, Google, and AI-platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini that promise to research gifts, track prices, and—even more remarkably—place orders or call...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly been stitched into a full-fledged shopping experience, and the company appears to be accelerating that rollout ahead of the holiday season — adding price tracking, order history, curated recommendations, and AI-driven “price” and “review” insights that together...

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 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...

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...

Ralph Lauren’s new conversational stylist, Ask Ralph, is rolling out to U.S. app users today — a generative-AI feature built with Microsoft on the Azure OpenAI platform that promises brand-curated, shoppable outfit suggestions delivered through natural-language conversation and visual laydowns...

Microsoft is advancing its Copilot platform by integrating a new feature known as Copilot Wallet, designed to streamline the online shopping experience through AI-driven, one-click purchasing capabilities. This development signifies a significant step toward embedding transactional...

Microsoft has made significant strides in the landscape of generative AI with Copilot Vision—the feature embedded within its Copilot ecosystem that leverages multimodal intelligence to efficiently analyze, summarize, and answer questions about whatever is presented on your phone or PC screen...

Mastercard has recently introduced "Shopping Muse," an AI-powered shopping assistant developed by its subsidiary, Dynamic Yield. This innovative tool is designed to enhance the online shopping experience by providing personalized product recommendations through natural language interactions...

Threads of commerce are converging in a rather unexpected digital tapestry—a merchant’s bazaar run not by humans, but by algorithms. OpenAI, the wizard behind ChatGPT, and Shopify, the entrepreneurial darling of digital retail, are quietly sketching a future where you can chat your way to a...

As we hurdle toward a tech-savvy future, Microsoft has turned heads with its latest brainchild, Copilot Vision. While many Windows users, like you, may still be wrapping their heads around the existing CoPilot features, this innovative approach promises to elevate your browsing experience in...

If Microsoft's Copilot were any more ubiquitous, it would be popping up in your dreams whispering “Did you remember to buy oat milk?” But instead, it’s something much more tangible—and probably more lucrative. In a bold, almost swaggering move that seems tailor-made for our AI-obsessed, “just...

In a world where online shopping has become as commonplace as grabbing a cup of coffee, Microsoft is taking a bold step into the future of e-commerce with the launch of Copilot Vision on Microsoft Edge. Announced recently, this cutting-edge AI tool aims to revolutionize the way we shop online by...