Last updated May 20, 2026
Galdera, a Stockholm-based startup building AI-powered financial modeling software founded by veterans of Klarna, debuted with $1.7M in pre-seed funding led by J12 Ventures, with participation from...
Meta announced at Shoptalk 2026 that it will begin testing an AI-driven shopping experience on Facebook and Instagram that surfaces product details, brand information, AI-summarized user reviews,...
Hi Shopifreaks Lots of e-commerce news and big announcements from Shoptalk 2026 this week. The edition after Shoptalk each year is always a big one! The overall trend of this week's edition seems to...
Stripe has launched a native checkout experience for Facebook that lets shoppers buy products from businesses like Fanatics and Quince in a single click directly within a Facebook ad, using saved...
Meta announced at Shoptalk 2026 that it will begin testing an AI-driven shopping experience on Facebook and Instagram that surfaces product details, brand information, AI-summarized user reviews,...
Google updated its Universal Commerce Protocol, the agentic commerce standard it launched in January, with three new capabilities including: A Cart option that lets AI agents add multiple items from...
Hi Shopifreaks Before we get started, I just wanted to say thank you for your readership. Many of you have been with me since the very beginning when I launched Shopifreaks in January 2021 -- which...
Cursor unveiled Composer 2, an AI agent designed to handle lengthy coding tasks autonomously, trained exclusively on coding-related data to make it smaller and less expensive to run than...
Shopify has integrated USDC directly into its core payments stack, allowing merchants to accept the stablecoin at checkout alongside credit cards without adding new providers or changing existing...
RunSybil, an AI cybersecurity startup whose autonomous agent continuously hacks live applications to find and document real security vulnerabilities without human involvement, raised $40M in a round...
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