Shopify announced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) yesterday, an open standard co-developed with Google that lets AI agents connect directly to merchants and complete transactions. Alongside the ...

The AI Shopping wars continue to advance at lightning speed with OpenAI, Shopify and Meta announcing new capabilities this week, following fast on the heels of similar updates from Google and Amazon.

Commerce is messy and complex. The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) tackles that complexity head-on by defining a common language for any AI agent to transact with any merchant. Co-developed by ...

Harley Finkelstein, the president of Shopify, was recently interviewed about their open source Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), which enables agentic AI shopping. Co-developed with Google, he ...