Startups
Ex-Spotify engineers raise $10M to kill the generic online storefront
TechCrunch AI · Aug 6, 2026 · 3 min read
Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson, and Shivaditya Sinha spent years building the behavioral intelligence guts of Spotify’s rec...
Topic: e-commerce
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AI News
Appeals court says AI shopping agents are just users in disguise, handing Perplexity a win over Amazon
The Decoder · Aug 5, 2026 · 3 min read
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals just handed Perplexity a lifeline—and maybe a playbook for the entire agentic AI in...
Product
Mercari's Switch to GPT-4o Mini Is Quietly Fueling Millions of Sales
OpenAI Blog · Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Mercari is doing something quietly brilliant with its AI: making it invisible. The Japanese marketplace giant has moved...
Product
ChatGPT Can Now Buy Stuff For You—Here's How It Works
OpenAI Blog · Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI is turning ChatGPT from a shopping advisor into a personal shopper that can actually complete a purchase. The co...
Research
Qwen 3 8B Learns to Shop: RL Training Produces AI That Can Handle Returns, Bundles, and Multi-Step Orders
Hugging Face Blog · Apr 16, 2026 · 2 min read
The dirty secret of AI shopping assistants is that chit-chat doesn't close sales. A new project called EcomRLVE-GYM is...