Ilya Grigorik

Cloudflare announced PACT, a privacy-preserving protocol to standardize AI bot management, backed by Google, Shopify, and major browser makers. The initiative aims to enable legitimate AI agents while…

On May 18, 2026, Shopify released @shopify/ucp-cli, an open-source command-line tool and MCP server that functions as an AI shopping agent powered by the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). The CLI con…