Medusa launched a blog series on September 7, 2026 detailing its agentic automations, starting with how it keeps documentation in sync across its AI toolkit. The toolkit includes Medusa Development Sk…
Shopify President Harley Finkelstein reported on the company's February 2026 earnings call that orders arriving through AI-powered search have grown 15 times since January 2025, routing through Google…
A developer built intent-longbox, a photo-to-listing pipeline for comic shops that combines barcode decoding with LLM re-ranking to identify exact comic issues and variants. The system uses an append-…
ViaSocket launched an AI workflow automation platform that connects Gmail, Instagram, Google Sheets, WhatsApp, Slack, Shopify, and 2,300+ other apps with no code, enabling users to build automations t…
Search Engine Land's analysis, 'Evolving SEO for 2027: What still needs to change,' describes a shift from traditional Google rankings to a three-dimensional visibility problem that includes AI-genera…
A new manifesto argues that enterprise AI tools are siloed and calls for 'multiplayer AI' where teams share agent sessions, citing a Harvard Business School study showing improved outcomes and Shopify…
Shopify introduced Gisting, a technique that compresses long LLM system prompts into learned 'gist' tokens, reducing the Sidekick GraphQL agent's prompt from about 6,000 tokens to 1,500 tokens without…
A developer has published a technical guide for building a multilingual voice AI sales agent for ecommerce, combining Vapi's voice gateway, Shopify's GraphQL API, OpenAI's GPT-4 for conversation, and …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Founders podcast that he has used computers the same way for 20 years, calling it the most psychologically inconsistent thing about himself, even as his company ships…
OpenAI enabled WebMCP support in the ChatGPT desktop browser on August 25, allowing AI agents to directly invoke structured JavaScript functions on websites instead of slow screenshot-based interactio…
Shopify's latest commerce analysis shows AI-referred shoppers convert at roughly twice the rate of organic-search visitors in spec-led product categories during Q2 2026, following Q1 findings of 50% h…
Shopify reported that AI-referred sessions to its storefronts grew 197% year over year in Q2 2026, far outpacing organic search growth of 12%. The company found that about half of AI-referred sessions…
Anthropic launched a blueprint for building commerce agents on Claude, reporting that retailers using such agents see carts up to 35% larger and shoppers 60% more likely to complete a purchase. The op…
Shopify's AI agent River reduced its dependency vulnerability backlog by about 70% in the first 11 days of operation, with roughly two-thirds of issues resolved via direct merges and the rest confirme…
A developer's hands-on test of the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol across a three-agent commerce flow — checkout, shipping, and claims — shows the protocol's task model is its key value, while payment auth…
Shopify Inc. is giving its engineers broad freedom to spend on AI tokens as it builds infrastructure for shopping agents, betting that structured product data from its Catalog product will drive merch…
Shopify COO Jess Hertz said that nearly 90% of Shopify's quarterly revenue comes from merchants on the platform for over a year, and that its AI-powered commerce agent Sidekick and Catalog product lay…
A test of 200 live Shopify storefronts found that the agent-commerce category filter declared in the Universal Commerce Protocol schema was ignored by 186 stores and rejected all values by 4, with zer…
Easy build labs has launched Insightify, an AI review analytics app for Shopify merchants that uses AI-powered sentiment analysis to turn product reviews into business insights, growth signals, and ri…
Val Town, a platform for hosting internal tools and websites, published a newsletter summarizing 10 blog posts from the past few months, including updates on OAuth connectors, AI answer engine optimiz…