agentic commerce

Shopify Says AI Search Boosts Conversions by 80%

Shopify Says AI Search Boosts Conversions by 80%
Shopify Says AI Search Boosts Conversions by 80%
September 14, 2026  |  eCommerce

Shopify is leveraging agentic artificial intelligence to transform digital commerce discovery, lower startup barriers for small and medium-sized businesses, and reinforce its core payments and...

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Mastercard’s Sherri Haymond on Letting AI Shop While Consumers Stay in Charge
Mastercard’s Sherri Haymond on Letting AI Shop While Consumers Stay in Charge
September 14, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Sherri Haymond AI can find the shoes, compare prices and locate a merchant with the right size. The...

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Mastercard Launches Agent Connect to Help Merchants Scale AI Shopping
Mastercard Launches Agent Connect to Help Merchants Scale AI Shopping
September 09, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Mastercard is expanding one agentic AI offering for merchants while introducing another. The payments giant on Wednesday (Sept. 9) announced it had updated its Mastercard Agent Suite for...

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Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumers Have Already Cut the Lattes
Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumers Have Already Cut the Lattes
September 09, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

Meet Tom and Elaine. (Our names, not theirs.) Both report household income between $65,000 and $70,000. Both are married, live in a city and say...

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Visa CEO Says AI Shopping Has Arrived but Agentic Payments Haven’t
Visa CEO Says AI Shopping Has Arrived but Agentic Payments Haven’t
September 08, 2026  |  VISA

Artificial intelligence may be changing where consumers decide what to buy before it changes where they pay for it. “We are seeing adoption for shopping,...

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Merchants Put AI to Work Without Handing Over the Customer
Merchants Put AI to Work Without Handing Over the Customer
September 08, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The payments and retail industries are asking the wrong question about agentic commerce. The question is not whether an artificial intelligence agent can complete a...

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EMVCo Proposes Intent Layer for Agentic Card Payments
EMVCo Proposes Intent Layer for Agentic Card Payments
September 02, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A valid card credential may tell an issuer that an artificial intelligence agent can pay. It does not necessarily tell the issuer whether the AI agent...

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Spreedly Sees Good Bots Becoming an Agentic Commerce Channel
Spreedly Sees Good Bots Becoming an Agentic Commerce Channel
September 02, 2026  |  eCommerce

Watch more: Digital Shift With Spreedly’s Adam Hiatt Bots are bad. That, at least, has been digital commerce’s operating assumption since the category’s inception. Automated...

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