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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...
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Microsoft’s new Copilot Checkout flips a familiar shopping pattern: rather than redirecting a customer from a conversation to a retailer’s site, the purchase completes inside the AI assistant itself, turning discovery and checkout into a single, uninterrupted flow that Microsoft says will help...