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.
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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.