Editor's take: eBay has faced significant controversy in recent years. Now, the e-commerce giant is preparing to tackle "agentic shopping" and other aggressive AI-driven bots that compete with regular ...

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Shortly after Google announced its new Universal Commerce Protocol for AI-powered shopping agents, a consumer economics watchdog sounded the alarm. In a now viral post on X viewed nearly 400,000 times ...

Google’s new open commerce standard aims to reduce cart abandonment and enable agent-led buying across Search, Gemini, and retailer systems. Google today unveiled the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) ...

Under its Cloud group, Google will introduce a suite of products that allow businesses to build, test and deploy personalized multimodal agents. “Customer Experience Agent Studio” is part of Gemini ...

A new Universal Commerce Protocol will power checkout within AI Mode, letting shoppers buy without leaving Google. Business Agent puts branded AI chat directly in Search results. Direct Offers is a ...

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Agentic commerce generally refers to AI systems that act on behalf of users to discover products, compare deals and complete payments within the chatbot. Payment giants like Visa and Mastercard plan ...

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