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Worldpay Debuts Model Context Protocol to Bolster Agentic Commerce | PYMNTS.com
Source: PYMNTS.com
Worldpay has debuted a tool aimed to promote AI-powered payment integration and agentic commerce. It's MCP is available now via the company’s Developer Hub and Github, letting developers and merchants create artificial intelligence agents and direct payment integrations with Worldpay’s API.
ChatGPT Adds Shopping Research For Product Discovery
Source: Search Engine Journal
OpenAI launched shopping research in ChatGPT, a tool that creates personalized buyer's guides. Available to all logged-in users.
Amazon Sues to Stop Perplexity From Using AI Tool to Buy Stuff
Source: Bloomberg
The US online retailer filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding Perplexity stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases online for users. The e-commerce giant is accusing Perplexity of committing computer fraud by failing to disclose when Comet is shopping on a real person’s behalf, in violation of Amazon’s terms of service.
OpenAI launches Instant Checkout, with 1 million+ merchants coming soon
Source: Mashable
The company explained that Instant Checkout was co-developed with payment processor Stripe and already works in chat with Etsy. Support for “over a million Shopify merchants, like Glossier, SKIMS, Spanx, and Vuori,” is coming soon
Perplexity searches are now shoppable with a Perplexity Pro subscription.
Source: Mashable
Today, the AI-driven search engine unveiled "Buy with Pro," a shopping assistant within Perplexity searches that gives you a one-click shopping experience.