| Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol aims to make shopping AI-native | ||
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| Google recently published details about its Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard that aims to make purchases happen seamlessly with AI agents rather than websites. The idea is to standardize the entire commerce flow—product discovery, pricing, checkout, payment, and post-purchase—so that an AI agent can complete purchases directly without custom integrations for each merchant. Merchants remain the seller of record, but expose capabilities through a common protocol, allowing agents to compare options and execute checkout across multiple stores. If it goes ahead, it weakens marketplace lock-in (including Amazon) by moving search and checkout from proprietary UIs to AI-powered intent flows, just as open web protocols undermined the power of early Internet portals. | ||
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