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Shopify and Google’s new Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) marks a decisive move to make AI agents first-class participants in commerce, wiring conversational assistants into product discovery, checkout and post‑purchase flows without the bespoke integrations that have long burdened merchants...

Agenticonstraints checkout has crossed an important threshold: what was once a demo-room thought experiment is now live across multiple major AI platforms, and the technology is reshaping how discovery, selection, payment, and post‑purchase flows are stitched together inside conversational...

OpenAI’s new Instant Checkout is moving from experiment to scale: after launching with U.S. Etsy sellers, the feature will soon enable in-chat purchases from more than one million Shopify merchants, a step that crystallizes a shift from “links to actions” in e-commerce and creates a new...

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...

Google’s move to codify shopping for the AI era arrived at NRF as the Universal Commerce Protocol — an open, modular specification designed to let conversational agents discover products, assemble carts, apply contextual offers, and complete tokenized checkouts without bespoke integrations for...

Google’s unveiling of the Universal Commerce Protocol marks a decisive push to make AI agents first-class participants in online shopping, enabling conversational interfaces to not only recommend products but to complete purchases, manage payments, and handle post‑purchase workflows without...

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...

Google’s keynote at NRF introduced what the company calls the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a vendor‑backed open standard designed to let AI agents move seamlessly from product discovery to checkout and post‑purchase support — and to do so without bespoke, one‑off integrations for every...

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) landed at the National Retail Federation conference as more than a product announcement — it’s a bid to rewrite how digital commerce is orchestrated in an AI-first world, offering an open, modular standard that promises to let specialized AI agents (for...

Shopify is moving to make AI-assisted buying a mainstream channel by opening its merchants to direct checkout inside Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot — a shift that stitches conversational discovery and payment into a single flow and will be governed by a new interoperability layer...

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...

Shopify’s latest product pivot places conversational AI — not the storefront — at the center of modern retail, turning chat agents into discovery and checkout surfaces through a set of interoperable standards and partnerships that include Google and Microsoft. The company’s Winter ’26 “Agentic...

Microsoft’s Defender platform now adds an AI-driven incident prioritization layer aimed squarely at reducing SOC overload by turning a noisy incident queue into an explainable, ranked worklist that analysts can act on with speed and confidence. Background Security operations centers (SOCs) have...

Microsoft’s Copilot has moved from answer engine to checkout lane almost overnight, and the implications for retailers, shoppers and platform governance are profound. Copilot Checkout — an in‑chat, tokenized payment flow that lets U.S. users discover products, confirm shipping and complete...

Microsoft’s Copilot has moved decisively from “helpful search companion” to a functioning checkout surface by adding deep payment integrations with both PayPal and Stripe, and packaging the plumbing retailers need to let AI complete purchases on users’ behalf. This is not a minor UI tweak — it’s...

Microsoft’s Copilot now surfaces a native checkout flow so U.S. users can buy from merchants like Etsy sellers, Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie without leaving the chat—an experience powered in part by Stripe’s payment infrastructure and anchored on the Agentic Commerce Protocol and tokenized...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly moved from assistant to checkout lane: shoppers in the United States can now complete purchases directly inside Copilot conversations, with payments and merchant plumbing provided by partners including PayPal, Stripe and Shopify — and Etsy sellers already...

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 has quietly become a checkout lane: shoppers in the United States can now complete purchases directly inside Copilot conversations, and Stripe says it is one of the payment engines powering the new Copilot Checkout experience. This move stitches Microsoft’s conversational AI...

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...