• January 23, 2026
Google Unveils Open Protocol for Agentic Commerce at NRF ‘Big Show’

Google Unveils Open Protocol for Agentic Commerce at NRF ‘Big Show’

Google has introduced a new technical standard aimed at supporting agentic commerce as automation vendors and retailers experiment with AI-driven purchasing experiences. The company unveiled the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) at …

Report Predicts Shift from AI Pilots to Agent-Driven Marketing During 2026

Report Predicts Shift from AI Pilots to Agent-Driven Marketing During 2026

Netcore, a Mumbai-based provider of an AI-powered engagement platform, has released a report examining how autonomous AI agents could reshape marketing and commerce operations over the next two years. According to …

Reimagining a Century-Old Company for the AI Era

Reimagining a Century-Old Company for the AI Era

In 1915, Deluxe Corporation was one of the most innovative companies in the nascent payments space when it invented the pocket checkbook and a proprietary process for printing checks. One hundred …

Microsoft Introduces Copilot Checkout to Enable In-Conversation Retail Transactions

Microsoft Introduces Copilot Checkout to Enable In-Conversation Retail Transactions

Microsoft recently launched Copilot Checkout, which will let shoppers complete purchases directly within AI-driven conversations rather than being redirected to external retail sites, and will unveil it publicly this week at …

ARIS Taps Tech Vet Bacuvier as CEO to Advance Agentic AI Strategy

ARIS Taps Tech Vet Bacuvier as CEO to Advance Agentic AI Strategy

German process intelligence technology provider ARIS has named Guillaume Bacuvier as its new chief executive officer. The company said the appointment aligns with its effort to position process intelligence as a …

A Novel Approach to Agentic Automation

“Start With the Hard Problems”: A Novel Approach to Agentic Automation

When donating the blood that gets separated into plasma used for life-saving therapies, donors probably aren’t thinking that such an intensely physical procedure is the start of a highly regulated series …

Fiserv, Mastercard Expand Agentic Commerce Partnership

Fiserv, Mastercard Expand Agentic Commerce Partnership

Fiserv and Mastercard announced they are expanding their partnership to support agentic commerce, which the companies define as a model in which AI agents can initiate and complete transactions on behalf …

Meta Acquires Manus to Bolster Access to General-Purpose AI Agents

Meta Acquires Manus to Bolster Access to General-Purpose AI Agents

Just before the new year, Meta announced it had acquired Manus, a Singapore-based company building general-purpose AI agents aimed at both consumer and business use cases. According to the Wall Street …

OCR to RPA to Agentic AI: Persson Traces ABBYY’s Journey in Automation

OCR to RPA to Agentic AI: Persson Traces ABBYY’s Journey in Automation

As a society makes advances, there is usually a recognizable kernel of the past that remains and even forms the basis of ongoing progress. According to Ulf Persson, CEO of ABBYY, …

OnePay Joins Google Agent Payments Protocol as Walmart Pushes Deeper Into Agentic Commerce

OnePay Joins Google Agent Payments Protocol as Walmart Pushes Deeper Into Agentic Commerce

OnePay, the fintech arm majority-owned by Walmart, has signed on to Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), underscoring the broader push by major retailers to build infrastructure for AI-driven commerce. The move …