Deep analysis, expert interviews, and research on the transformation of commerce through AI agents
Amazon is connecting AI discovery, external merchant feeds, checkout, advertising, and agent-access rules into a controlled shopping stack. What that means for DTC brands.
Retail Technology Innovation Hub reports PSE Consulting research showing consumers favor universal AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude for discovery, while still preferring recognized marketplace
Commerce and PayPal research summarized by Let's Data Science finds strong UK consumer interest in AI shopping assistants, alongside concerns about approval control, payment security, wrong-product se
Stifel argues Shopify is positioned to benefit as agentic AI expands, highlighting the commerce platform’s strategic exposure to AI-driven shopping.
A Regulatory Review analysis argues that consumer-protection law is not equipped for the harms created when AI shopping agents act for consumers, and calls for regulators to respond.
Albertsons Media Collective is bringing Criteo-sponsored product placements into AI-powered conversational search, raising a strategic question about how retail media budgets will shape recommendation
Debra Aho Williamson joins Retailgentic to unpack ChatGPT's emerging ad model, the tension between trust and monetization in AI interfaces, and why brands need to prepare for a world where agents influence what gets bought.
In-depth discussion about the transformative nature of agentic commerce that unpacks the remarkable shifts occurring in traditional retail due to the rise of AI technologies and new consumer behaviors
Shopify's James Johnson explains UCP, agentic commerce, and what AI-driven shopping means for ecommerce retailers in 2026.
