Shopify and Google have jointly pushed the industry another step toward conversation-first retail by co-developing an open standard—the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)—and by rolling out Shopify’s Agentic Storefronts and catalog upgrades that put merchants directly into AI conversations across...
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...
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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...