Shopify launched AI tracking tools for merchants as part of its Editions product showcase.

Launched Catalog API to cluster billions of products for agentic commerce

Walmart expands B2B services to offer plumbing, electrical, and general facilities maintenance to local convenience stores and small businesses.

Shopify Engineering details 'Flow generation through natural language' research project.

Teased 'autoresearch' technology with applications beyond model training, targeting 2026 implementation

Published arXiv preprint detailing a novel bi-encoder training framework for sponsored search retrieval.

Opens its catalog integration to any brand, enabling broader AI shopping capabilities

Filed patents for AI-driven dynamic pricing systems for real-time retail execution

Walmart launches Sparky chatbot integration into ChatGPT and Google Gemini

Walmart abandons OpenAI's Instant Checkout integration due to poor performance