Category: News & Updates
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Claude Marketplace & MCP: Anthropic’s Enterprise AI
Anthropic, founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei and headquartered in San Francisco, California, launched Claude Marketplace—a commission-free integration platform supporting Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus models—with six inaugural partners including Salesforce Inc., Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud. The platform implements Anthropic’s proprietary Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard to…
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Mastercard and Visa Lead Agentic Commerce Security Standards
Mastercard and Visa, the two largest payment networks globally, are simultaneously competing and collaborating with technology companies including Google, Stripe, and Amazon Web Services to develop technical standards, security protocols, and interoperability frameworks for agentic commerce—autonomous AI-driven transactions conducted without direct human authorization.
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UCP Gains Momentum in Google’s AI Commerce Push
Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is gaining traction as the underlying infrastructure for AI-driven commerce across Google platforms.
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Shopify continues its push into agentic commerce with AI-powered tools, integrat
Shopify continues its push into agentic commerce with AI-powered tools, integrations with Google and Microsoft, and updates to its AI assistant, Sidekick
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Splitit Backs Google’s UCP for Agentic Commerce
Splitit announced its support for Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).
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UCP Gains Traction in AI Shopping
Google’s UCP powers AI checkout on its platforms.
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Klaviyo, Shopify Integrate for AI-Powered Global Commerce
Klaviyo and Shopify are deepening their integration to offer a unified, multi-market data foundation, enabling brands to personalize customer experiences global
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Agentic Commerce Standards Gain Momentum
Splitit backs UCP, Mastercard rolls out Verifiable Intent, Nexi partners with Google.
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BNPL Firms Embed as AI Takes Over Shopping
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) providers are embedding themselves into the emerging agentic commerce infrastructure as AI assistants take over shopping.
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Claude Code leads; Google pushes gRPC for MCP
Anthropic’s Claude Code now most-used AI coding tool.