Tech companies are rushing AI shopping bots to market ahead of the holidays, yet multiple tools recommend identical generic gifts like cozy bathrobes. Amazon has sued Perplexity and blocked outside AI ...

Retail’s embrace of artificial intelligence has pushed bots to new corners of the shopping experience — and not just for new products or traditional e-tailers, but also secondary sales platforms like ...

The “Stopping Grinch Bots Act” aims to stop “cyber Grinches” from using computer software to swoop up this season's hottest toys. Limited stock — Already, businesses have been disproportionately ...

Jason Kent, hacker in residence at Cequence Security, says most retailers are applying 1970s solutions to the modern (and out-of-control) shopping-bot problem, and offers alternative ideas. In the ...

Amazon.com Inc.’s AI-infused Rufus shopping assistant has new features that make it a “faster, more useful, state-of-the-art shopping companion.” Google’s agentic checkout feature “can do the heavy ...

Amazon is blocking ChatGPT's AI shopping tools. Links to Amazon pages might not appear in a ChatGPT search. Amazon doesn't want AI bots cutting into its revenue. ChatGPT's new shopping research agent ...

Frustrated by empty store shelves, some parents are turning to a new kind of Santa’s helper: the consumer-friendly shopping bot. Shopping bots scour retail sites to find out when sold-out items get ...

Visa’s answer is the Trusted Agent Protocol, a framework that authenticates AI shopping agents and connects them to the humans they represent. Akamai brings its edge-based behavioral intelligence and ...