ecommerce platforms

Andy Jassy’s warning on Amazon’s latest earnings call was blunt: the single biggest long-term risk to Amazon’s retail dominance isn’t Walmart or Alibaba — it’s the rise of horizontal AI agents that aim to become consumers’ new “front door to commerce.” What sounded at first like a tactical quip...

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...