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Google unveils Universal Cart AI shopping tool that carries purchases through checkout
Google has unveiled an AI shopping tool called Universal Cart that brings multiple retailers into a single experience centered on Search and Gemini. Items found through search or chat can be saved to a Google cart and taken through checkout. The feature supports price tracking, price history and restock alerts, and can warn about incompatible purchases. Google Pay can link memberships and cards and suggest ways to save, while purchases can also be completed on retailers’ sites. Google is expanding AI-driven direct purchasing with approval and records.
Crypto
AI agent payments turn into new battleground, big tech and crypto in sights
Moves across the industry aimed at expanding AI agents are accelerating, with strong interest in AI agent payments in the global payments market. Major companies are competing to build protocols that allow AI agents to make payments without a human in the loop. Coinbase, Cloudflare and Google have unveiled related protocols, while Stripe and Paradigm-backed layer-1 blockchain Tempo introduced an open-source machine payment protocol supported by Visa.
AI & Enterprise
AI chip war enters new phase as Nvidia challengers step up offensive
Big cloud companies are stepping up attacks on the AI chip market dominated by Nvidia, extending efforts from inference into model training. Meta signs a multiyear deal to rent Google’s TPU and discusses bringing TPU into its data centres from next year. Amazon strengthens cooperation with OpenAI around AWS and its Trainium chip. Nvidia plans to unveil a new inference-focused chip in March and outlined an AI-native 6G vision using AI-RAN.
