Shopify’s Winter ’26 Edition turns a headline product launch into an explicitly strategic play: make millions of merchants agent-ready for AI-driven shopping, stitch catalogs and checkout into conversational agents, and use payments and product-data scale to defend a central position in the next...
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...
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When it comes to streamlining everyday browsing with AI vision, two heavyweights have emerged: Microsoft Copilot Vision and Google Lens. Both promise smarter, faster identification of the world around us—be it a product, plant, passage in a book, or even a snippet from an official document. But...
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Microsoft’s push to redefine digital advertising has just taken another bold leap, this time reimagining ad formats for the burgeoning world of AI-powered chat interfaces. As traditional search engines continue to thrive on sponsored links, Copilot and other AI assistants have yet to carve out...