Have you ever used Google to find out how to do something? If so, the first several links are likely to be YouTube videos. I appreciate a good explainer video, but they take time to watch. Video is ...

DHL eCommerce and the United States Postal Service announced a new exclusive multi-year contract on Wednesday for last-mile parcel delivery services in the U.S., valued at well over $10 billion. The ...

Amazon achieved ecommerce supremacy in the dot-com era. While Google won search, the commerce lane belonged to Amazon. But Google sees an opportunity for an ecommerce do-over in the agentic AI era, ...

OpenAI is adding product feed-based ads tools for ecommerce companies running campaigns in ChatGPT. The update allows retailers to generate ads from existing product catalogues instead of creating ...

Online shoppers are getting a lot more demanding about returns. And that puts small businesses in a bind. Some 81% of customers read return policies before shopping with a retailer, and 71% say that a ...

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American Express (Amex) is building a system that lets AI agents shop and pay on behalf of users — but right now it’s only within its own payment network, and still involves a black box that could ...

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Summary: Google rebranded and consolidated its AI platform at Cloud Next 2026, renaming Vertex AI to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and absorbing Agentspace into a unified Gemini Enterprise ...

Microsoft released an emergency patch for its ASP.NET Core to fix a high-severity vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on devices that use the Web development ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation vulnerability. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-40372) was found in the ASP.NET ...

Patching is not enough: applications embedding the insecure library will need to be rebuilt, and affected tokens and cookies expired. Developers are advised to check their applications after Microsoft ...