Meta is preparing to launch Hatch, an AI agent that browses the web and completes tasks, with a premium tier priced at $199.99 per month, marking its first major paid AI product. The agent is being tr…
Stripe's president of technology and business Will Gaybrick said on a16z's podcast that checkout pages will disappear as AI agents handle shopping and payments, with payment shifting from a click-thro…
Sara Russell, a 37-year-old small business founder in Brooklyn, NY, built an AI C-suite using Anthropic's Claude projects to manage her bath-and-body business, which she runs full-time since 2023. Aft…
Tech-industry layoffs in 2026 have surpassed the total for all of 2025, reaching 126,305 by mid-August, according to the layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi. This exceeds the 122,606 jobs lost across 278 globa…
A new playbook from The AI Corner claims that using Anthropic's Claude to create custom digital products for Etsy can generate $10,000, citing Etsy's 86.6 million active buyers, Pinterest's 41% share …
An AI listing generator automates product descriptions for multiple e-commerce platforms, reducing a three-hour writing session to a five-minute review. The tool uses a transformation pipeline with in…
Meta launched Seller, a standalone iOS app for Facebook Marketplace power sellers that uses Meta AI to generate titles, descriptions, and prices from a single photo, and includes a unified inbox and p…
Google's Head of Search, Nick Fox, stated on LinkedIn that Google is sending billions of clicks to websites every week through AI features in Search, and that these features are designed to connect pe…
Etsy sellers are fleeing the platform in large numbers due to frustration with policies allowing AI-generated art and declining sales. Emily Olson, a former top seller who made over $40,000 in 2021, s…
A developer has created a CLAUDE.md template for Etsy sellers, designed to be used with Claude Code. The template includes fields for shop name, products, niche, style, customer, and tools, along with…
A new AI-powered platform lets ecommerce sellers generate realistic user-generated content (UGC) video ads in minutes using AI actors, voiceovers, and product demos, replacing traditional creator-base…
Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) enables AI agents to discover, compare, and purchase products on behalf of users, shifting ecommerce from click-throughs to AI-driven transactions. The open-…
Companies are scrambling to reduce AI spending as providers shift to per-token pricing, with some using tools to make LLMs communicate like cavemen. Meanwhile, entirely fake AI-generated flowers are f…
Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell seeds for exotic flowers that do not exist on platforms like Etsy, eBay, and Amazon, according to reports. The fake listings often feature impossible col…
The OpenClaw AI agent framework creates a creator-business stack where early adopters can monetize the friction of setup through affiliates, skills, freelancing, community, and courses, turning tutori…
Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell fake flower seeds on Etsy and eBay, with one seller's listings including a hosta resembling screaming shrimp and a butterfly-shaped plant. The fraudulent…
Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell seeds for fake exotic plants on eBay, Amazon, and Etsy, deceiving thousands of buyers. The scam, which predates AI, has proliferated as platforms struggl…
Google's Chrome 149 introduces a 'Select from screen' tool for Gemini, allowing users to drag a box around content on a tab and feed it directly to the AI side panel without copying or describing. The…
At DX Annual, a panel of engineering leaders from Etsy, Twilio, GitHub, Google, and Microsoft debated AI's impact on software engineering, concluding that AI will not eliminate the need for engineers …
A developer built five custom automation solutions for small and medium businesses, costing between EUR 500 and EUR 5,000. The projects included price scraping for an auto parts e-commerce site, autom…