Amazon is continuing to integrate AI into its online shopping experience. On Wednesday, the retail giant announced that customers in the US will see AI-generated images when they type product terms into the search bar. But these pictures are not of real-life, non-AI products available for purchase. …
… On Tuesday, Etsy launched a beta version of its app in the OpenAI-owned ChatGPT . Once connected to the ChatGPT Etsy app , all you have to do is tag @Etsy and provide a prompt for it to generate results that can be compared or opened on the Etsy website. …
… Shopping sites also got a blow from the latest generative Gemini shopping features, like an agentic hub that supposedly handles the storefront details with your own personalized recommendations. …
… Plus, for example, things like the happy, retailer-friendly agentic shopping platform for Chrome raises all the usual issues about, say, if there's a breakdown in the chain of agents, who's responsible for the refund? Friction in shopping transactions isn't necessarily bad for consumers. …
… It's just a marketing term for a modern, mainstream laptop that guarantees some level of on-device AI performance. You'll likely end up with a Copilot Plus PC without intending to, unless you're shopping at either end of the laptop price spectrum. …
… I used Claude AI to generate a side-by-side comparison of features, reviews and price tiers, and had the AI tool generate some recommendations on which of these I would like best based on my personal preferences, including that I'm learning Japanese, I trend more toward eating less processed foods … …
… It's not magic, it's math: The results are based on the large language model 's predictions and past information, making it prone to hallucinations , errors and biases . Keep a balanced approach when using tools like ChatGPT. AI, like most cutting-edge tech, is neither all good nor all bad. …
… May 19, 2026 at 11:13 AM PDT Google is building an AI shopping cart for everything By Nelson Aguilar Google announced Universal Cart, an AI-powered shopping cart that works across Google services, including Search and the Gemini app, with YouTube and Gmail support coming at a later time. …
It’s a tough time to be shopping for a laptop, particularly any type of gaming laptop. Between the global RAM shortage driving up the price of computer memory, the AI boom putting GPUs in short supply and tariffs generally making things more expensive, laptop prices have been on the rise. …
… The Zenbook A16 basically lapped the competition with AI performance. Its score of 85,328 on the Geekbench AI test, which measures the on-device AI performance of a laptop's neural processor, was miles ahead of competing laptops. …