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  1. AI Shopping: From Discovery to Purchase with UCP and JD Sports

    The era when search engines merely influenced shopping is giving way to one where AI agents can complete purchases on a shopper’s behalf — and recent moves by JD Sports, Google, Shopify, Microsoft and others make that shift unavoidably practical rather than hypothetical. JD’s decision to let...
  2. Universal Commerce Protocol: Open Standard for AI Agent Checkout

    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...
  3. Agentic Commerce: How AI Agents Redefine Ecommerce with Shopify Klarna Stripe

    Shopify’s Agentic Storefronts, Klarna’s Agentic Product Protocol, Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite and a raft of logistics, marketplace and fraud‑prevention tools announced in mid‑December mark a decisive shift: the ecommerce stack is being rebuilt around agents — conversational AIs that...