tokenized payments

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just an adviser — it’s becoming a checkout lane, and Stripe has been named as one of the payments engines powering that shift as Microsoft rolls Copilot Checkout into U.S. users’ experiences. The announcement ties together Microsoft’s new agentic commerce...

Microsoft’s Copilot has moved from assistant to checkout lane: Copilot Checkout lets users discover products and complete purchases inside Copilot conversations without being redirected to merchant websites, and the initial U.S. rollout arrives with major commerce partners—Shopify, PayPal, and...

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...

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...

Agentic shopping—where an AI assistant not only recommends products but completes the purchase for you inside the chat—has abruptly moved from pilot projects and design decks to live commerce surfaces this year, and it’s reshaping how merchants, platforms, and IT teams must think about...

Agentic commerce has moved out of concept slides and into live rollouts: conversational assistants can now not only recommend products but also complete purchases inside the chat window, powered by new standards, tokenized payments, and platform partnerships that promise frictionless buying —...