Anthropic open-sourced two production-grade commerce AI agents on September 2 under the Apache 2.0 license, letting developers clone, configure, and run a live demo in under fifteen minutes. The anthr…
Shopify is moving its mobile apps from a shared React Native codebase back to fully native Swift and Kotlin, writing each app separately for iOS and Android. The company credits AI coding agents with …
Mercemur launched a Shopify competitor built around agent-first commerce, offering 571 API operations across catalogue, orders, customers, pricing, and money, plus an MCP endpoint at https://mcp.merce…
Shopify is rebuilding its mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin, six years after moving them to React Native, with its engineering blog crediting coding agents for cutting the cost of maintaining two platfo…
Shopify is abandoning React Native six years after going "all-in" on the Meta-developed framework, rewriting its mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin using a new AI-powered system. Director of Engineering …
Shopify announced it is abandoning React Native and migrating all of its mobile apps back to native Swift and Kotlin, citing AI coding agents that cut the cost of building for two platforms below main…
Shopify is abandoning React Native and returning to separate Swift and Kotlin native codebases, citing AI coding agents that make cross-platform code sharing less necessary. The company plans to archi…
Toloka AI is hiring a Senior ML Researcher for its ML team in the European Union on an on-site basis, with salary not published, to own the company's end-to-end fine-tuning, RL, and evaluation stack. …
Shopify is migrating all of its mobile apps back to native Swift and Kotlin, reversing its 2020 bet on React Native, according to a September 10 engineering post. A six-engineer team rebuilt the Shop …
The W3C and GS1 workshop "E-Commerce for Humans and AI Agents," held in Zurich on September 8–9, 2026 and co-hosted by Google, concluded without a formal outcomes report, leaving unresolved how the in…
Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke said he uses an AI council to examine his hardest decisions and that Shopify has built an AI colleague named River with memory, personality, and permission to challe…
Estee Lauder appointed Brian Franz to the newly expanded role of chief technology and transformation officer, where he will oversee AI initiatives across the company's 14,000 employees, including acce…
Tailwind Labs, the team behind the CSS framework Tailwind CSS with 110 million weekly npm installs, announced it is joining Shopify, with founder Adam Wathan calling it a stable long-term home. The de…
Chrome 149's open origin trial for WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol), a browser-native standard co-authored by Google and Microsoft, lets websites register JavaScript tools or HTML form annotations …
Georgian, a private equity firm, has built Relay, an internal platform that lets AI agents publish Markdown and HTML artifacts to a secure, shareable home. The tool addresses the 'last mile' problem o…
Meta Platforms Inc. launched Muse, a personal AI agent for U.S. consumers that connects to email, calendars, payments, and other apps to automate tasks like booking travel and making purchases, powere…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed fears that AI will kill SaaS, calling the notion 'the most illogical thing in the world' and saying markets 'got it wrong' after SaaS stocks tumbled. Shopify reported…
An engineer argues that legacy e-commerce subscription tools are causing revenue leakage and proposes an AI-native subscription engine that embeds machine learning into transaction and state-managemen…
A developer spent a day using an AI agent to research a product decision and saw its recommendation reverse four times, all due to estimating selling price from cost rather than market data. The agent…
Black Friday 2026 is November 27 and Cyber Monday is November 30, and for most ecommerce brands, Q4 delivers 30 to 40 percent of annual revenue, with the five days from Thanksgiving carrying a disprop…