Shopify President @harleyf says small businesses are benefiting the most from agentic commerce. "The merchants that seem to be benefiting the most from agentic commerce are not the big-box stores. It is the long tail of these specialized independent businesses." "On agentic alone, AI-driven traffic to Shopify stores was up 3x, orders were up 3x, and conversion from our Shopify catalog was 2x more than general AI scraping." "The volume in agentic commerce is small relative to the $116B [in Q2 merchant sales], but the trend and growth is real."

I just deleted my @Shopify account. Scammers were using it for money laundering and I couldn't figure out how to get Shopify to pay attention. In order to flag a transaction as fraud they wanted me to talk to the criminals to "resolve" the disagreement. No thanks.

Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin (ITBrief) reports on Shopify’s Platinum membership in PyTorch Foundation, including Shopify’s plans to contribute upstream engineering expertise and share experience from running machine learning systems in retail and commerce settings. "AI is becoming the operating layer for commerce, and we're convinced that layer needs to be open to reach global scale," said Mikhail Parakhin, Chief Technical Officer, Shopify. "PyTorch is central to how Shopify builds AI today. Joining the Foundation lets us invest in that base directly and help shape it for the agentic era, rather than just building on top of it." The coverage also details Shopify’s use of PyTorch across Sidekick, search and recommendation tools, fraud protection, and foundation model work tied to merchant tools. "We are excited to welcome Shopify to the PyTorch Foundation as our newest Platinum Member," said Mark Collier, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation. "Shopify operates where AI meets real buyers and sellers every day, and that vantage point is exactly what the Foundation needs as agents become a front door to commerce. Read more:

We are rebuilding Hydrogen from the ground up with @Shopify. It's agent-first, runtime-agnostic, and runs anywhere JavaScript does. Learn more and try the Next.js developer preview ↓

The 10th payment provider just landed on @trust_mrr 🤩 You can now list a Shopify store and get a 69 DR dofollow backlink! After you've connected the TrustMRR Shopify app, you can claim the page to edit your store and list it on the marketplace.