The post-AI data stack era, beginning around 2026, expands a data scientist's role from producer of analysis to builder of a company's shared reality, as AI makes producing analysis cheap but consensu…
Altana, a software company that helps brands like Wayfair map global supply chains, was barred by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce from doing business in China on August 5, 2026, following US import b…
Sierra, an AI customer experience platform co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, is hiring a Software Engineer, Agent - Retail in San Francisco to build production-grade AI agents for retail clien…
OpenAI's GPT-5.4-mini can classify e-commerce queries more cheaply by hallucinating fake categories and matching them to real ones via embeddings, according to a developer who shared the technique. Th…
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-…
Social media claims that toy listings on Vinted contain coded language for child trafficking have sparked investigations in France and Germany, but authorities and the company say they have found no c…
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…
Google, IBM, and Circle have backed a new open standard called the Legal Context Protocol (LCP) to provide legal certainty and dispute resolution for AI-driven transactions. The protocol, unveiled by …
Inference engineering, the discipline of optimizing AI model performance in production, has expanded from frontier AI labs to a broad specialty as open models like DeepSeek V3 narrow the gap with clos…
Google Ads is shifting to serve AI agents that shop on behalf of consumers, with agentic commerce driving $67 billion in global sales during Cyber Week 2025. Product feeds are becoming bidding signals…