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May 28, 2026Agentic Commerce Is Becoming an Owned-Channel Fight
The next phase of the agentic economy is not just about being recommended by AI. It is about controlling the agentic surface where customers decide, transact, and come back.
Amazon Opens Its Shopping Agent Playbook To Retailers
On May 27, Amazon announced AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant, a solution that lets retailers build AI shopping assistants based on the same foundation behind Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping. The pitch is direct: retailers can bring their own catalog, customer data, brand voice, and...
02Visa And Highnote Push Agentic Payments Into B2B Workflows
Also on May 27, Highnote announced agentic commerce capabilities built with Visa Intelligent Commerce. The initial use cases are not flashy consumer shopping demos. They are operational: invoice payments, vendor spend, procurement, accounts payable, and AI-assisted...
03Enterprise Agents Need Identity And Governed Data Before Scale
Ping Identity announced new agentic enterprise capabilities on May 27, including AI-first headless identity interfaces, MCP support, agent governance, lifecycle visibility, and privileged access for desktop agents without exposing long-lived secrets. On the same day,...