Insights, updates, and case studies about Agentic Commerce and how AI is transforming e-commerce.
Anthropic ran the first real-world test of agent-to-agent commerce inside Claude. Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Stripe joined the UCP Tech Council, doubling its membership. Ulta brought beauty into Gemini. And Instacart turned Claude into a grocery cart.
Cloudflare spent a week building the identity layer for AI agents. Shopware shipped Europe's first native Agentic Commerce sales channel. And the consumer trust numbers came in, with a warning for every brand paying for placement.
Visa launches a universal agentic commerce on-ramp. Mastercard expands AI agent payments across Asia-Pacific. Juniper Research projects $1.5 trillion by 2030. The ACLU files in support of Perplexity. And the EU considers classifying ChatGPT as a Very Large Search Engine.
Shoptalk 2026 was dominated by agentic commerce. Walmart and Sephora launched apps inside ChatGPT. Gap enabled full checkout in Gemini. Stripe launched a machine payments protocol. And Bain projected $300-500 billion by 2030.
Perplexity's injunction reversed. Shopify defaults all stores into ChatGPT. Visa onboards 21 European banks. And World wants to prove you're human before your AI agent can shop. A packed week in agentic commerce.
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.
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.
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.
UCP and ACP are both live. Here's how they compare, who supports what, and what merchants should do right now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Two rival ecosystems are forming around AI-powered shopping. What merchants need to know.
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.
Shopify gets the headlines, but WooCommerce merchants can already connect to ChatGPT's instant checkout. Here's how.
Two months after ChatGPT launched instant checkout, Perplexity fires back with a free AI shopping agent, PayPal integration, and a merchant program.
Why merchants must prepare for AI-driven shopping.