Google Aims to Reinvent Online Shopping with Universal Cart This Year; Here’s How

This is Google’s most ambitious move in AI-driven commerce yet. Universal Cart aims to revolutionize how people find, compare, and buy products online. It signals a serious shift from traditional e-commerce browsing to agentic shopping where AI steps up as a personalized assistant that can take care of most of the buying process. Google says it’ll monitor prices, check stock, suggest alternatives, and eventually help automate purchases. Google also launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to support secure, AI-controlled transactions going forward. With these tools, Google sets itself up not just as a search engine, […]