Shopping assistant chatbots were a novelty a year ago. Now, they’re everywhere. After rolling out AI-powered assistants, online retailers and tech companies have been adding more artificial ...

To further push the limits of consumerism, Google has launched a new open standard for agentic commerce that's called Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). In brief, it's a framework that combines the ...

Perplexity announced a free agentic shopping product for U.S. users next week. The startup partnered with PayPal ahead of the launch. Perplexity previously released a shopping offering called "Buy ...

Chinese tech firms are turning AI chatbots into full-service shopping and payment tools. Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance are racing to build AI-powered super apps. U.S. firms lead in AI models, but ...

Search and shopping are starting to collapse into the same place, as AI-driven interfaces encourage users to move from questions to purchases without leaving the conversation. Google is now applying ...

This year, the biggest conversation in fashion tech was AI by a long shot. At a pace few predicted heading into 2025, the generative artificial intelligence behind large language models (LLMs) like ...

Shopping assistant chatbots were a novelty a year ago. Now, they’re everywhere. Ticker: Judge dismisses Trump’s $10B lawsuit against WSJ; US stocks rally Humanoid robots show off their language and ...