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Digital Trends

Google’s Gemini AI will go shopping for you without hopping between sites and apps

The hottest new trend in the world of e-commerce is AI or agentic shopping. ChatGPT got a shopping experience all the way back in April last year, and followed it up with a shopping research tool in ...
Forbes

Google And Walmart’s Big AI Bet Is On Agentic Commerce

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SiliconANGLE

Google debuts Universal Commerce Protocol to streamline agentic shopping automation

Google LLC has unveiled a new open commerce standard that’s designed to enable artificial intelligence agents to automate the entire shopping journey, from product discovery to payment to post-sale ...

15 Fixes To Improve Low Conversion Rates In Google Ads

Learn 15 practical ways to improve Google Ads conversion rates, covering bidding, targeting, ad copy, and landing page ...

Composable Commerce vs Headless Ecommerce: How to Choose the Right Approach

Compare composable commerce vs headless ecommerce, including architecture differences, costs, team requirements, use cases, and migration tradeoffs.
InfoQ

Google and Retail Leaders Launch Universal Commerce Protocol to Power Next‑Generation AI Shopping

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
Stockhouse

Commerce Supports Universal Commerce Protocol, Plans to Offer Buying Directly Across Google's AI Surfaces

New standard creates a common language for agents and systems across the entire shopping journey from discovery and buying to post-purchase experiences AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ...
Wall Street Journal

How Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI

In the wee hours of an August morning, an artificial-intelligence project manager at Google loaded the newest creation from its DeepMind lab onto a platform that ranks AI models. Naina Raisinghani, ...
TechNode

Ant International, Google to collaborate on AI commerce protocol

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Yahoo News Australia

Google's new commerce framework cranks up the heat on 'agentic shopping'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To further push the limits of consumerism, Google has launched a new open standard for agentic commerce that's called Universal ...