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CarParts.com and CarGurus Turn Proprietary Data Into Moats

August 07, 2026
AI Is Bringing Retailers Their Best Customers but Not Closing the Sale
Artificial Intelligence // August 07, 2026

Retailers this quarter are reporting where artificial intelligence has actually changed how consumers shop, and where it has not. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe...

Retailers Steer AI Traffic Back to Own Checkouts
Retail // August 07, 2026

Retailers are looking to market their products through artificial intelligence platforms while bringing the transactions and data that come with them to their own platforms, Reuters reported Friday (Aug. 7). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

Live Commerce Platform Whatnot Raises $545 Million to Speed AI Expansion
Investments // August 07, 2026

Whatnot raised $545 million in a Series G funding round to grow its live commerce platform, the company said in a Friday (Aug. 7) press release emailed to PYMNTS. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Ninth Circuit Narrows CFAA Reach in Perplexity Agentic Commerce Ruling
Artificial Intelligence // August 06, 2026

A federal appeals court has handed the artificial intelligence (AI) industry a potentially significant early victory in the development of the law regarding agentic commerce. In a unanimous opinion issued Tuesday (Aug. 4), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated a preliminary...

Interviews & Exclusives
Payment Choice Now Defines The New American Shopper

August 05, 2026
American shoppers aren’t waiting for retail to catch up. They’re already using mobile devices and AI to find products, compare choices and decide where to spend. Their shopping habits are outpacing many merchant systems. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — […]

Amazon Narrows AI Ambitions as Retail Rivalry Intensifies

July 30, 2026
Amazon’s decision this week to scale back parts of its homegrown artificial intelligence portfolio has been taken by the marketplace as a retreat from the frontier-model competition. Get the Full...

The World Cup’s Other Final: Platforms, Pizzas and a Planet Hitting ‘Buy Now’

July 25, 2026
Spain took home the trophy. The digital economy took everything else: our attention, our sleep, our snack budgets and, apparently, our remaining sense of distance. Uber data supplied to PYMNTS...

Lithic Says Everything Payments Assumes About Shopping Is About to Break

July 24, 2026
For the past 25 years, card-not-present payments have been built around a defensive premise: Prove the buyer is human, authorized and in control of the transaction. Fraud systems, merchant controls...

Quick Reads
CarParts.com and CarGurus Turn Proprietary Data Into Moats

August 07, 2026
CarParts.com and CarGurus are each leveraging their own proprietary data to differentiate their platforms from competitors, executives at the two companies said in their Thursday (Aug. 6) earnings reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily […]

Retailers Steer AI Traffic Back to Own Checkouts

August 07, 2026
Retailers are looking to market their products through artificial intelligence platforms while bringing the transactions and data that come with them to their own platforms, Reuters reported Friday (Aug. 7)....

Live Commerce Platform Whatnot Raises $545 Million to Speed AI Expansion

August 07, 2026
Whatnot raised $545 million in a Series G funding round to grow its live commerce platform, the company said in a Friday (Aug. 7) press release emailed to PYMNTS. Get...

Mercado Libre Free Shipping Converts Monthly Shoppers Into Daily Active Users

August 06, 2026
A year after lowering the threshold for free shipping in Brazil, Mercado Libre has seen the offering drive “a structural change in behavior,” the eCommerce and FinTech company said in...