LLM Pulse analyzed 391,073 citations from AI answers to generic shopping questions in the U.S. between April 12 and July 11, 2026, and found that major retailer and marketplace domains account for jus…
Kroger and Target made AI hires, Walmart added a tool for advertisers, and Academy Sports + Outdoors launched Academy Retail Media, a new advertising business with Instacart that gives marketers acces…
Target has appointed Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, effective immediately, as the retailer aims to integrate AI into both customer and employee experiences. Nair, who previously served as…
Startup Hark launched Handoff, a browser-use agent that navigates websites without official APIs including Target, Walmart, and OpenTable, using post-trained models with plans for pre-training later i…
Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, launched Hark Handoff, a browser-use agent that can complete tasks such as ordering food, booking travel, and shopping on websites …
During a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats agreed that surveillance pricing—companies using personal data to adjust prices—is harmful, but no consensus emer…
A new analysis reveals that 70% of top retailers are unprepared for agentic commerce, where AI handles the entire customer journey from discovery to checkout. The finding comes as OpenAI and Google ra…
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-…
Google and Microsoft co-developed WebMCP, a proposed W3C browser standard now in a public origin trial in Chrome 149, to make websites natively compatible with AI agents. The standard lets developers …
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…
Target developed a generative AI-based system that uses embeddings and large language models to semantically match new marketing campaigns with similar historical ones, improving forecasting accuracy …
DoorDash launched an AI search feature called 'Ask DoorDash' that lets users create grocery orders by describing meals or uploading photos of recipes. A home cook who tested the feature found it usefu…
Chet Hanks stars in a new morning-after pill campaign for Julie, alongside Hallie Batchelder, portraying a 'stereotypical himbo' to promote the FDA-approved emergency contraceptive. The campaign, shot…
Marketing and media leaders gathered at Cannes Lions to discuss trends in AI, experiential marketing, and brand partnerships. Disney's Rita Ferro and Target's Michelle Mesenburg highlighted the value …
Five U.S. firms—Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle—are projected to invest $800 billion in AI in 2026, up from $400 billion in 2025, according to a Washington Times opinion column. The colu…
AI is transforming marketing, elevating chief marketing officers to some of the most powerful executives in business as they take on growth, technology, data, and AI strategy. A Boston Consulting Grou…
Amazon moved Prime Day 2026 to June 23-26, breaking from its July tradition, as it rolls out Alexa for Shopping to replace Rufus and shift product discovery from search to AI-powered conversations. Th…
At Open Source Summit North America 2026, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) proposed an open infrastructure for agentic commerce, citing a Bain forecast that agentic shopping coul…
PlayStation’s FlexStrike Wireless Fight Stick is now available for pre-order at retailers including Target and Smyths, priced at $199.99 in the US and £179.99 in the UK. The first-party arcade stick, …
Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a chip-to-cloud platform and operating system for devices that run AI agents instead of traditional apps. The company is piloting two concept devices—a…