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Microsoft’s Copilot Checkout is now a live distribution channel for Etsy sellers, folding discovery, selection and payment into a single conversational surface and marking a major inflection point in how marketplaces, payments providers and AI platforms intersect. Background Ecommerce has long...

Microsoft has pushed Copilot from a productivity and search assistant into a full transactional surface: shoppers in the U.S. can now discover, compare and complete purchases inside Copilot with the launch of Copilot Checkout, while merchants get new Brand Agents and Copilot Studio templates to...

Microsoft and Stripe this week pushed agent-led commerce from prototype to product: Copilot Checkout — a native, in-chat purchasing flow that lets U.S. users discover and buy items from retailers like Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and independent Etsy sellers without leaving the Copilot...

PayPal and Microsoft have quietly collapsed discovery, decision and payment into a single conversational lane: Copilot Checkout lets U.S. shoppers find products, open a branded in‑chat checkout, and complete payment without leaving the Copilot interface — with PayPal powering inventory...

Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot from advice to action: Copilot Checkout lets U.S. users discover products and complete purchases without leaving the Copilot conversation, using partner payment rails and merchant catalog integrations to render an in‑chat checkout that claims faster conversion...

Microsoft and PayPal have quietly turned Copilot into a checkout lane: shoppers in the United States can now discover, decide and pay for items without leaving the Copilot conversation, thanks to a PayPal-powered integration that supplies inventory surfacing, branded in-chat checkout, guest...

Microsoft has quietly turned Copilot into a checkout lane: users in the United States can now complete purchases directly inside Copilot conversations through a new in-chat checkout experience called Copilot Checkout, a move that folds discovery, cataloged inventory, and tokenized payments into...

Microsoft’s Copilot Checkout has gone live in the United States, turning conversational AI into a direct checkout lane and doing so with a clear “merchant consent” argument as its public differentiator. The rollout ties Copilot to payment and commerce infrastructure from PayPal, Shopify, and...

Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot from chat companion to checkout surface: Copilot Checkout lets U.S. users discover, compare, and complete purchases inside a Copilot conversation without being redirected to merchant storefronts, and it ships alongside merchant-facing tools called Brand Agents...

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 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 AI era has already rewritten the rules of discovery: the next battleground for brands isn’t search ranking or paid ads — it’s becoming part of AI-powered platforms themselves so customers can buy, book, schedule, and transact without ever leaving the chat. Background For two decades the...

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...