Shopify’s Winter ’26 push and its Q3 results together sketch a rare moment when product momentum, profitable unit economics, and strategic partnerships converge — creating a credible path for the company to move from platform leader to foundational commerce infrastructure in the AI era...
Shopify’s Winter ’26 “RenAIssance” Edition frames a deliberate pivot: turn AI from an assistive feature set into the plumbing of commerce itself, and make millions of merchant catalogs discoverable, shoppable and auditable inside conversational agents such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Microsoft...
Shopify’s latest Editions release turns a previously theoretical shift—selling directly through conversational AI—into something merchants can opt into now, with the company rolling out agentic storefronts that make products discoverable inside AI chat platforms such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and...
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