March 16, 2026
OpenAI Kills Instant Checkout: What This Actually Means for Merchants
OpenAI pulled native checkout from ChatGPT after five months. ACP lives on as a discovery protocol. Here's why this confirms what mattered all along - and what merchants should do differently now.
March 11, 2026
Amazon vs. Perplexity: The First Legal Battle Over AI Shopping Agents
A federal judge blocked Perplexity's AI shopping agent from accessing Amazon. The ruling draws a line between user consent and platform authorization - and it will shape how every AI agent interacts with merchants.
March 05, 2026
Agentic Commerce: 31% of French Shoppers Already Use AI to Buy
French consumers are adopting AI-assisted shopping faster than the infrastructure supports it. Here's what the European data says and what merchants should do.
March 04, 2026
UCP vs ACP: The Two Protocols That Will Decide Your Visibility
UCP and ACP are both live. Here's how they compare, who supports what, and what merchants should do right now.
February 28, 2026
Microsoft Copilot Checkout: The AI Shopping Channel Nobody Is Talking About
Copilot Checkout has the best published conversion data of any AI shopping channel. 194% more likely to purchase. Here's what merchants need to know.
February 24, 2026
Amazon Buy for Me: When a Giant Lists Your Products Without Your Permission
Amazon's AI agent buys from third-party sites without merchant consent, while blocking outside agents from its own catalog. Here's how it works, why brands are pushing back, and what merchants should do.
February 19, 2026
ChatGPT Shopping Is Open to 800 Million Users: What Merchants Need to Do
OpenAI's Instant Checkout is now live for all US users. Here's what changed, how the fees work, and what merchants on every platform should do next.
February 10, 2026
Beyond Google, OpenAI, and Perplexity: Who Else Is Building AI Shopping?
Meta is coming, Amazon is controversial, and some big names are nowhere to be found. A map of who's in and who's out of agentic commerce.
February 05, 2026
The Agentic Commerce War: Google vs OpenAI
Two rival ecosystems are forming around AI-powered shopping. What merchants need to know.
January 18, 2026
PrestaShop and Agentic Commerce: 250,000 Merchants Have No Seat at the Table
Google and OpenAI built their commerce protocols around Shopify. PrestaShop's 250,000+ merchants, many of them European, are on their own. Here's the situation and what to do about it.
December 03, 2025
Agentic Commerce for WooCommerce: What Exists and What to Do Now
Shopify gets the headlines, but WooCommerce merchants can already connect to ChatGPT's instant checkout. Here's how.
November 25, 2025
Perplexity Enters AI Shopping With a Free Agent and Zero Fees
Two months after ChatGPT launched instant checkout, Perplexity fires back with a free AI shopping agent, PayPal integration, and a merchant program.
November 14, 2025
Understanding the Agentic Commerce Protocol
Why merchants must prepare for AI-driven shopping.