Email marketing teams in 2026 still rely on spreadsheets for reporting, lacking a cohesive strategy according to Email Calculator, a new analytics platform that integrates with 55+ email service provi…
A developer's analysis of job postings from 2023 and 2024 reveals that companies like IBM, Atlassian, Shopify, and Stripe are quietly rewriting job descriptions to emphasize AI oversight over manual e…
The Trump administration imposed export controls on Anthropic's Fable model, limiting access to U.S. citizens and forcing Anthropic to make the model unavailable. Ben Thompson argues that the incident…
Meta's Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns (ASC) report a single blended ROAS that often overstates true value by mixing new and returning customers and relying on Meta's own attribution. To measure ASC cau…
AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity now drive significant referral traffic to Shopify stores, but most of that revenue is misattributed to Direct or Organic channels due to stripped referrer hea…
A new open-source tool lets brands audit how they appear in AI assistant recommendations from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Mode, revealing which competitors are cited and which queries they are miss…
A developer built ClarityCommerce, an autonomous commerce operating system that replaces traditional dashboards with a multi-agent AI workforce. The system uses LangGraph for hierarchical state manage…
Causality Engine launches a causal marketing attribution tool for Shopify brands, using a proprietary causal-inference model to analyze GA4 exports and reveal which channels drive incremental revenue,…
Shopify launched its Spring '26 Edition on June 17, 2026, introducing over 150 updates centered on agentic commerce, including Shopify Catalog, a global product dataset syndicating merchant listings t…
Google introduced third-party developer tools for Chrome DevTools for agents, enabling frameworks and apps to expose internal runtime state to AI agents via a new Discovery API. The tools allow agents…
Minyut is an embeddable RAG chatbot that can be integrated via a single script tag, built to prevent AI hallucinations by constraining answers to uploaded content. The chatbot processes queries for we…
A developer details building a robust multi-provider LLM fallback system for production, sharing architectural decisions and lessons from real-world failures. Another project introduces 'Turbo Start A…
Robboto launched Turbo Start Aisle, an agentic e-commerce starter built on Shopify and Sanity that replaces traditional filters and category pages with a conversational AI agent. Customers can describ…
Anthropic joined Frontier, a Big Tech coalition funding carbon removal, which announced $915 million in new commitments on June 17, bringing total pledges to $1.8 billion. The AI company, known for it…
Amazon Web Services announced new autonomous agents for its AI assistant Amazon Quick, enabling users to delegate tasks that run continuously in the background. The agents can be created with plain la…
Anthropic became the first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition, contributing to a new $915 million funding tranche that brings total pledges to $1.8 billion. The move marks Anthro…
Infinite OS, a self-hosted, local-first growth-analytics runtime, lets users query data from Google Analytics 4, Stripe, PostHog, and other sources in plain English on their own machine. The tool sync…
Pinterest launched an experimental AI shopping app called 'Ask Pinterest' that uses conversational AI and the company's Taste Graph to provide personalized product recommendations. The standalone app …
Databricks reported $6.9 billion in annualized recurring revenue, up 80% year over year, widening its lead over Snowflake to $1.6 billion. AI products now account for $1.7 billion of Databricks' ARR, …
Shopify shareholders voted down a proposal from the Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE) that would have required the company to respect human rights and align with international…