Google's Universal Cart lets shoppers buy across stores from Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail. Here's how Shopify merchants get their catalog in — and what actually matters.
Previewed at Shopify's June 17 Summer '26 showcase: AI Collection Sort and Predictive Cross-Sell. What ML-ranked collections mean for paid traffic and AOV.
Visa and OpenAI's June 10, 2026 deal lets ChatGPT and Codex agents buy at any Visa merchant. Here's how Shopify stores become the product an agent picks.
Mastercard's June 10, 2026 Agent Pay for Machines lets AI agents pay each other. Here's what micropayment rails mean for your e-commerce marketing stack.
Apple Intelligence's on-device AI increasingly makes shopping recommendations. How iOS-targeting DTC brands should prepare for AI-mediated discovery.
TikTok Shop and Shopify's TikTok integration have diverged. Here's where each wins for DTC brands and the hybrid model that's emerging in 2026.
AI agents are making purchases on behalf of users. Here's how Shopify brands should optimize PDPs, APIs, and inventory for agentic commerce.
How AI shopping assistants surface discounts and coupons, and what merchants should do to make offers visible (or hidden) from AI discount aggregation.
OpenAI scrapped ChatGPT's in-chat Instant Checkout in early 2026 and pivoted to product discovery. Here's what actually happened and what Shopify merchants should do instead.
April 2026 AI search updates across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode/Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot — and what they mean for brand and product visibility.
May 2026 AI search recap: GPT-5.5 in ChatGPT, Google Universal Cart and UCP, Perplexity personalization, and Copilot agents, plus what it means for brands.
OpenAI's April 2026 ChatGPT updates: GPT-5.5 agentic model, Images 2.0, and the shift from Instant Checkout to product discovery for merchants.
Every major ChatGPT and OpenAI update from March 2026: GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini, and the pivot from Instant Checkout to product discovery, for e-commerce.
OpenAI's May 2026 ChatGPT updates: GPT-5.5 Instant default model, deeper memory, Excel and Sheets, plus a new visual shopping experience for merchants.
Shopify's April 2026 updates brought native B2B to Basic/Grow/Advanced plans, Sidekick Pulse, the Scripts sunset, and API 2026-04. Here's what to action.
Shopify's Winter '26 Edition dominated March 2026 with 150+ updates: agentic storefronts, a proactive Sidekick, 2048 variants, and new dev tooling.
Shopify's May 2026 updates: a dedicated Agentic Storefronts admin page, theme Rollouts with A/B testing, an LLM-file editor, and a 34% Q1 revenue beat.
Stripe's Agentic Commerce Suite brings native checkout inside Facebook ads plus Link's agent wallet. Here's what Shopify + Meta advertisers should set up.
Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13, 2026 with 15 agentic workflows plus QuickBooks and PayPal connectors.