Paul Drecksler is the founder and editor of Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter, covering the most important stories in e-commerce since 2021.
Alibaba.com unveiled a new “AI Mode” that embeds agentic AI directly into its B2B platform, enabling buyers to compare suppliers and generate sourcing recommendations through natural language queries. The feature, powered by Alibaba’s Accio AI search engine, launches...
Reddit released a new WooCommerce integration that lets merchants connect their stores directly to Reddit Ads to reach shoppers researching products on the platform. The tool automates Reddit Pixel and CAPI setup, syncs WooCommerce product catalogs for Dynamic Product...
OpenAI is facing seven new lawsuits claiming that ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues. The lawsuits filed Thursday in California on behalf of six adults and one teenager allege wrongful death, assisted...
OpenAI reached a deal with Amazon to buy $38B in cloud computing services over the next seven years, with plans to immediately start using AWS compute and all capacity targeted to be deployed before the end of 2026. The deal follows OpenAI's restructuring last week,...
Amazon is introducing a new fee structure for its Selling Partner API (SP-API), marking the end of the free access that developers have enjoyed since introduction of the API in 2009 (formerly called Marketplace Web Services). Starting January 31, 2026, all developers...
Meta knowingly serves users 15 billion ads for scams every day and earns about 10% of is annual revenue from the scam ads, according to internal documents viewed by Reuters. The documents reveal that for at least three years, Meta failed to identify and stop ads that...
Commerce, the newly rebranded parent company of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift, launched two apps for Shopify merchants to help maximize reach, enhance data, simplify operations and scale. Yes, you read that correctly… BigCommerce Commerce is now building...
Remember Amazon Haul — the low-cost direct-from-China marketplace it launched in November 2024 to compete with Temu and Shein? After piloting the budget marketplace in the US one year ago, Amazon subsequently launched Haul in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain,...
Apple is planning to pay Google about $1B a year for an ultrapowerful AI model to help overhaul its Siri voice assistant, according to Bloomberg sources. Well that one definitely wasn't on my 2025 Bingo Card! Apple had previously considered using other third-party...
For a deeper dive into this story, watch my video on LinkedIn where I breakdown the merits of Amazon's lawsuit and share why I originally thought Amazon and Perplexity were BOTH in the wrong, but later changed my opinion to side completely with Amazon. Last week...
Hi Shopifreaks Two weeks ago I introduced my new video series 90 Second Pitches -- an entertaining way to discover innovative e-commerce technology from the industry's most promising startups. Please subscribe to the channel on LinkedIn and YouTube if you haven't...
Commerce released two new Feedonomics apps for Shopify, Feedonomics for Advertising and Feedonomics for Listings & Orders, to help merchants optimize product data, improve discoverability, and streamline multi-channel order management. The tools enable merchants...
You.com CEO Richard Socher is seeking about $1 billion to launch a new AI research startup focused on automating AI research, while continuing to lead You.com. The new venture, co-founded with former OpenAI researcher Tim Shi and others, aims to build systems that...
Perplexity published a blog post and sent out an e-mail saying that Amazon sent a legal threat demanding it block Comet users from using AI assistants to make purchases on Amazon, marking what the company called Amazon’s first legal action against an AI firm....
Anthropic raised its growth forecasts by up to 28%, projecting $70B in revenue and $17B in free cash flow by 2028, compared to OpenAI’s projected $47B cash burn that same year. The company, valued at $170B after a $13B raise in September, could target a $300–$400B...
It's been a minute since we've talked about the Matt Mullenweg vs WP Engine beef — and that's a good thing for the WordPress community because, for a while, it was getting embarrassing. However now some new information has surfaced. PPC Land reports that Automattic...
President Trump and President Xi met in Busan, South Korea last Thursday, marking the first in-person meeting of the two leaders since Trump took office in January for his second term, where they supposedly crafted a one-year agreement on trade relations. Trump said...
Shopify announced that the Shop App now runs on the Shopify Catalog, creating a single data layer that powers product discovery across AI-driven and organic channels. Before this change, Shop App had its own product feeds and sync processes, but now it pulls from the...
