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Back to EpisodesAI Weekly Briefing: Is Agentic Commerce About to Rewrite Online Shopping
Episode 39
Published 5 months ago
Description
In this week’s AI news breakdown, we look at how Google and Shopify are accelerating agentic commerce, with open protocols for AI shopping agents and in chat checkout through Gemini.
Also on the radar:
- Shopify Winter ’26 RenAIssance and what Agentic Storefronts mean for merchants
- OpenAI’s ad model for ChatGPT and the knock on effects for marketing and trust
- Wikipedia signing paid access deals with AI firms and what it signals for the content economy
- ChatGPT Translate and the shift in expectations for translation quality
Gemini’s personal intelligence upgrade and the privacy trade off