Latest E-commerce News & Updates
Last updated October 27, 2026
US shoppers embrace AI for price comparison and social media for discovery, but trust drops sharply at checkout, with just 24% trusting AI-powered payments
“Stablecoin” Google searches fall 54% month-over-month as aggregate supply stalls following the 2025 GENIUS Act boom, The Block finds
Google Finance exits beta with AI portfolio tracking, custom market briefings, and a new Android app, with iOS coming later this year
Amazon Music pays creators twice what Spotify does by taking nothing off the top, while Spotify keeps 46% of gross revenue, a Manatt law firm calculator finds
OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon back a new nonprofit, Raise US, led by Gina Raimondo to help states prepare workforces for AI disruption
UK’s FCA chief says regulation cannot keep pace with AI and the watchdog must shift toward stewardship, exploring agentic AI as a market-monitoring “first responder”
Revora, formerly MyAlice, raises $2M seed to build an AI commerce platform with agents that recommend products, recover carts, and take payment in chat
OpenAI unveils its first custom AI chip, Jalapeño, designed with Broadcom for inference, claiming roughly 50% cost savings over typical GPUs
Kroger’s retail media unit links with TikTok, letting advertisers target its shoppers on the platform with purchase-data audiences via self-service tools
Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 Security claims it built a domestic answer to Anthropic’s Mythos, casting AI vulnerability-finding as a national strategic asset
Amazon’s record $26.3B Prime Day masks falling order values as average transactions drop 17% YoY and shoppers lean on BNPL amid tariff-driven anxiety
Meta relaunches Facebook Creator Studio as a standalone AI-powered companion app and splits its Professional Dashboard into separate creator and business versions
Google starts cutting Play Store fees to a flat 10% service fee on the first $1M and allows external payment links, making good on its Epic Games settlement
Amazon’s Zoox unveils a redesigned robotaxi built for large-scale production, targeting up to 100 vehicles a week and rider availability later this year
Mirendil, founded by Anthropic veterans, raises $200M seed at a $1B valuation from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and Nvidia to build AI that accelerates AI research
REI gets roasted over an Instagram ad showing a bike with two sets of handlebars, blaming a Meta AI tool that auto-enrolled it and altered a vendor image
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of illicitly accessing Claude through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to copy its AI in an “adversarial distillation” campaign
Google tests “Strongest match” and “Strong match” labels on US search ads to flag highly relevant ads, drawing mixed reactions from advertisers
Google upgrades Chrome Autofill on mobile to pull travel documents, loyalty cards, and vehicle details directly from Google Wallet
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