Ecommerce - Maginative

OpenAI Ecommerce

OpenAI launches in-chat Shopping for ChatGPT, Partners with Stripe on Open-Source Payment Protocol

Chris McKay• September 30, 2025 • 5 min read

OpenAI's new Instant Checkout feature and the open-source Agentic Commerce Protocol represent a fundamental shift in who controls product discovery and purchasing online, challenging Amazon and Google's dominance while creating new infrastructure for AI-driven shopping.

Ecommerce

Mastercard Unveils Agent Pay to Let AI Agents Shop and Pay on Your Behalf

Chris McKay• April 29, 2025 • 2 min read

Mastercard’s new Agent Pay program combines tokenization technology and partnerships with Microsoft, IBM, Braintree, and Checkout.com to power secure, personalized commerce through AI assistants.

Amazon Ecommerce

Amazon Tests AI Shopping Agent That Can Make Purchases from Other Retailers for You

Chris McKay• April 3, 2025 • 2 min read

Amazon has launched a beta test of "Buy for Me," an AI shopping agent that allows users to purchase products from other brand websites without leaving the Amazon app.

Google Ecommerce

Google Shopping Adds AI-Powered Fashion Search and Virtual Try-On

Chris McKay• March 5, 2025 • 2 min read

Google has launched a new AI-powered fashion search tool, Vision Match, allowing users to describe clothing they want and see AI-generated images of similar items, alongside updates to its AR beauty and virtual try-on tools.

Ecommerce

Perplexity AI Adds One-Click Shopping to Its Search Engine

Chris McKay• November 18, 2024 • 2 min read

A new feature for Perplexity Pro users that lets you purchase select products directly through the platform, bypassing the need to visit external retail sites. Save your billing and shipping info once, and buy with just a click.

Amazon Ecommerce

Amazon's Prime Air Launches Drone Deliveries in Phoenix

Chris McKay• November 5, 2024 • 1 min read

This rollout is Amazon's first drone delivery operation fully integrated with its same-day delivery network, rather than operating from standalone facilities.

Amazon Ecommerce

A First Look at Amazon’s New AI Video Generator for Advertisers

Chris McKay• September 19, 2024 • 2 min read

By lowering the barriers to video and animated content creation, Amazon aims to enhance the shopping experience for customers while providing advertisers with powerful new ways to showcase their products.

Amazon Ecommerce

How Amazon is Personalizing Your Shopping Experience with Generative AI

Chris McKay• September 19, 2024 • 1 min read

Instead of generic suggestions like "More like this," customers might see more specific options such as "Gift boxes in time for Mother's Day" or "Cool deals to improve your curling game."

Amazon Ecommerce

Amazon Unveils Project Amelia, an AI Assistant for Sellers

Chris McKay• September 19, 2024 • 2 min read

Project Amelia leverages generative AI to offer a range of capabilities, including answering knowledge-based questions, providing status updates and metrics, and assisting with issue resolution.

Ecommerce

eBay Launches New AI-Powered Tool to Enhance Your Product Photo Backgrounds

Chris McKay• June 5, 2024 • 1 min read

The tool is currently available to iOS app users in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany, with a gradual rollout planned for Android users in the coming months.

Ecommerce

eBay Launches AI-Powered 'Shop the Look' Feature

Chris McKay• April 9, 2024 • 2 min read

The new AI-driven tool enhances the fashion shopping experience by offering personalized outfit suggestions based on users' shopping history.

Amazon Ecommerce

Amazon's AI Can Create a Product Listing From a Website URL

Chris McKay• March 13, 2024 • 2 min read

This initiative is part of Amazon's broader effort to use AI to reduce the workload on sellers while simultaneously improving the quality of product listings.

Amazon Ecommerce

Amazon Launches Rufus, Your Personal AI Shopping Assistant

Chris McKay• February 1, 2024 • 1 min read

The assistant draws on Amazon's extensive catalog data, customer reviews, and Q&As as well as information from across the web.

Shopify Ecommerce

Shopify Rolls Out AI-Powered Photo Editor for Instant Product Photo Enhancements

Chris McKay• January 31, 2024 • 2 min read

Merchants can instantly create on-brand, visually enticing product photos to showcase their items in the best possible light.

Amazon Ecommerce

Amazon's New AI Tool "Diffuse to Choose" Lets You Virtually Try Products In Any Setting

Chris McKay• January 26, 2024 • 3 min read

For consumers, it means the ability to place any item from an online store into their own living space or personal context, seeing how it fits and looks in real-time.

Ecommerce AI Tech

Etsy Launches AI-Powered Gift Mode to Make Picking Presents Easier

Chris McKay• January 24, 2024 • 1 min read

What sets Gift Mode apart is its ability to sift through Etsy’s extensive collection of over 100 million items, offering a curated, bespoke collection for each persona.

Amazon Ecommerce

Amazon is Using AI to Make Shopping for Fashion Online Easier

Chris McKay• January 9, 2024 • 1 min read

4 AI-powered innovations—personalized size recommendations, review highlights, re-imagined size charts, and fit insights—are helping customers shop with confidence.

Ecommerce AI Tech

Mozilla's New AI Chatbot Will Acts as Your AI Shopping Consultant on Amazon

Chris McKay• November 8, 2023 • 2 min read

The new conversational agent allows shoppers to simply ask questions about a product, with Fakespot Chat providing responses based on its analysis of listings, reviews, and other data sources.

Ecommerce AI Tech

Yahoo Mail Adds AI-Powered Shopping Saver and Smarter Inbox Experience

Chris McKay• August 28, 2023 • 2 min read

If you bought something online but forgot to add a gift card or coupon, Shopping Saver would notify you and help draft an email to the retailer to retroactively apply the credit.

Microsoft Retail Ecommerce

Microsoft Unveils AI-Powered Shopping Tools for Bing and Edge

Chris McKay• June 29, 2023 • 2 min read

The new features tap into the company's strengths in search, recommendations and more to simplify the shopping experience, and better connect customers with the products they’re looking for at the best price.