
AI Assistant

AI Shopping Assistants Slash Return Rates By Aligning Consumer Expectations With Reality
The ecommerce industry has long treated high return rates as an unavoidable cost of doing business online. Brands have subsidized ...

Major Banks Warn AI Shopping Agents Outpace Consumer Fraud Protections
The rise of agentic commerce is colliding with the rigid realities of financial risk management. A coalition of major banks ...

China’s Biggest Shopping Festival Just Replaced Its Discount Math With Robots
For years, surviving China’s 618 sale meant doing math homework. Cross-store discount stacking, deposit inflation schemes, the dreaded “spend 300 ...

Ulta Just Built a Chatbot That Sells More Lipstick Than Its Own Stores
Ulta Beauty had a strong quarter. Net sales hit $3.16 billion, up 11.1% year over year. Comparable sales grew 5.3%. ...

What an AI Agent Actually Is (vs. What You’re Being Sold)
There’s a pitch deck making its way around ecommerce boardrooms right now. It has a slide that says something like: ...

Walmart’s Need for Speed: How the Retail Giant Is Winning the Ecommerce Race
Strong quarterly numbers, a drone milestone, and an AI assistant now fluent in Spanish. Walmart is not slowing down, and ...

Walmart’s AI Sparky Is Basically Shopping for You Now
The retail giant’s AI agent is spending money faster than your impulsive cousin at a sample sale, and the numbers ...

Google Tests AI-Assisted Coding Interviews as 75% of Internal Code Becomes Machine-Generated
Google is testing a new kind of software engineering interview, one that lets candidates use AI assistants during technical assessments. ...

Creatable Targets Ecommerce ROI With Predictive Creator AI
Los Angeles based startup Creatable announced the release of what it describes as the first predictive AI system built specifically ...







