1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (497+ words) OpenAI’s first consumer hardware product is reportedly a portable smart speaker designed to move from room to room and function as a humanlike AI companion that lives in the home, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (July 14), citing people familiar with the matter....

1+ hour, 25+ min ago  (257+ words) Open payment platform provider Spreedly on Wednesday (July 15) announced the launch of a standalone payment vault, a move that allows merchants to store and manage customer credentials without committing to the company’s full payments orchestration suite. “The vault has become…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (445+ words) Imagine hiring a real estate agent who secretly works for the seller. That is the worry driving a new push in Washington over artificial intelligence. AI agents are software programs that do things for you. They shop, book, compare prices…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (158+ words) A weekly grocery run seems like the perfect opportunity to fill a shopping cart with everything else a household needs. New data suggests consumers increasingly see it differently. A recent PYMNTS Intelligence report, “The Basket Breakaway: How Amazon Is Turning…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (284+ words) Amazon Business now offers Prime Business customers in Spain some new artificial intelligence-powered features, according to a Monday (July 13) press release translated by Google. The features help purchasing, finance and operations managers see how their organization buy, as well as…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (322+ words) Retailers have spent two decades optimizing for traffic. The metric that shaped every SEO budget, every paid search bid and every social media campaign was volume: how many visitors arrived at the site. Shopify reported in a May blog post…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (497+ words) Retail is getting a first-principles upgrade at the hands, or lack of them, of artificial intelligence. The shopping transformation looks less like a better eCommerce search bar and more like something out of science fiction. It’s a bot-filled operating layer…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (159+ words) For merchants looking overseas for growth, the fastest route may run straight through the checkout page. That is the central finding of “Payments Optimization: Powering Global eCommerce Growth,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report done with Worldpay. The report argues that cross-border…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1099+ words) Watch more: The Digital Shift With Sunlight’s Guy Ziv The consumer version of agentic commerce imagines an agent that knows what a person wants to buy. The B2B version has a bigger prize and a harder job. It has to know…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (244+ words) A coalition of global fashion brands and digital marketplaces is mounting a campaign to eliminate sales taxes on secondhand clothing, according to a report June 30 from Retail Brew. The group argues that taxing items at the point of resale constitutes…...