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Ecommerce platform

Appears in 4 stories · Last updated Oct 21, 2026

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Meta launches Muse, an AI agent that acts across personal apps

New Capabilities

Muse shopping partner

Meta released Muse, its personal AI agent, to US users on September 8; by October 20, Sensor Tower counted 10.9 million downloads in 40 days, 10.2 million of them in the US. At its September 23 Connect conference, Meta added Walmart, Sephora and Shopify as retail partners, and daily active users reached 2.5 million on October 16.

Updated Oct 21

Consio launches AI outbound calling for ecommerce brands

New Capabilities

As of September 2026: Native integration partner for Consio

Consio now lets Shopify and Klaviyo merchants run outbound phone campaigns handled entirely by an AI voice agent. The agent places calls, reads each customer's cart and order history, answers product questions, builds orders, and texts a checkout link mid-call.

Updated Sep 18

Tailwind Labs joins Shopify

Money Moves

As of September 2026: Acquiring Tailwind Labs

Tailwind Labs announced September 9 that it is joining Shopify. The move lands eight months after founder Adam Wathan cut most of his engineering team and warned the company might not survive the year.

Updated Sep 9

Retailers move shopping and checkout inside AI chatbots

New Capabilities

As of June 2026: Activated Agentic Storefronts for 2M+ US merchants; co-developer of Google's Universal Commerce Protocol

Shopping inside AI chatbots moved from experiment to infrastructure in the first half of 2026, when Newegg launched full in-chat checkout on June 26. By then, two rival open standards were already competing for control of how AI-native checkout works.

Updated Jun 27