Amazon is updating its BSA agreement, and sellers have 2 weeks to ensure that any and all automation tools they use comply with new provisions. It includes but is not restricted to AI tools – and of course most services Read more
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, said this week he sees agentic shopping as an opportunity, but there was no indication Facebook will morph into an Amazon or eBay, and he only hinted as to what was to come. Read more
On Tuesday we published an article about eBay executives’ thoughts on AI and agentic shopping, including three of the ways they said AI would impact ecommerce. But Amazon executives also weighed in recently with their thoughts about AI and shared Read more
In the space of 4 days, Etsy announced it would make sellers’ items available for purchase directly on Microsoft Copilot Checkout and in Google Search AI Mode, coming just 3 months after it made a similar announcement when it integrated Read more
It’s hard enough to detect if your buyer is a scammer, but now sellers must be able to determine if buyers are even human, and what having AI bots as buyers means for the validity of their purchases. The topic Read more
Walmart entered into a new partnership with OpenAI that will start with allowing customers and members to shop Walmart through ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout. “Whether planning meals, restocking household essentials, or finding something new, customers can simply chat and buy, and Read more
Amazon’s agentic AI-powered Seller Assistant tool that it introduced last year can now reason, plan, and help sellers take action, the company planned to announce today at its Accelerate seller conference. The company made bold claims about how Seller Assistant Read more
Once Walmart opened its website to allow third-parties to sell on its website, it had to deal with problematic behavior from “bad” sellers, just as every online marketplace must do. On Tuesday, Walmart published a post describing the actions it Read more
eBay developers may not use its content or its data to train Artificial Intelligence (AI), nor may developers ingest eBay data into gen-AI models or tools. On June 24th, eBay updated its API license agreement where it added the new Read more
Google announced new AI features to help people find products and “try on” apparel virtually this week, and Amazon announced a new feature that has “AI shopping experts” research products and read aloud product summaries and reviews. Sellers are often Read more
