Amazon Cuts Off Meta's Muse From Shopping on Amazon
Amazon cut off Meta's AI agent Muse from shopping on its site, citing missing disclosure, hidden identity, and credential-security risks.
E-commerce News and Analysis
7 verified stories covering E-commerce, product updates and industry developments.
Anthropic Open-Sources Reference Blueprint for Commerce Agents
Anthropic open-sourced anthropics/commerce-agents, arguing skills beat sub-agents, with new rules for caching, security, and memory in production.
PixPix Adds FLUX Upscale for One-Pass 4K Product Video
PixPix has integrated Black Forest Labs' FLUX Upscale, letting sellers generate 4K product videos in a single pass instead of two separate paid steps.
Perplexity Wins Back AI Shopping Access
A Ninth Circuit ruling vacated Amazon's injunction against Perplexity's Comet agent and narrowed how CFAA access applies to user-directed AI browsers.
Google's Universal Cart lets AI handle your checkout
Google unveiled Universal Cart at I/O 2026, a cross-service shopping cart that uses AI agents to track prices, manage purchases, and complete checkout automatically.
Amazon folds Rufus into Alexa for Shopping
Amazon is retiring the Rufus shopping assistant brand and moving its history, recommendations and 300 million users into Alexa for Shopping.
Qwen turns Taobao into an agent-run shopping flow
Alibaba is wiring Qwen into Taobao and Tmall so the AI agent can search, compare, try on, pay and handle after-sales inside one shopping loop.