7 stories tagged E Commerce
Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company's 11th e-Conomy SEA report projects Southeast Asia's digital economy will reach $368 billion in 2026, driven by generative AI adoption among 243 million people, with a trajectory toward $1 trillion by 2035.
A startup founded by former Spotify employees has raised $10 million to adapt the AI behind Spotify's music recommendations for e-commerce. Their platform predicts what shoppers want next, learns their tastes, and adjusts recommendations in real time.
Scammers are using AI to create fake Black influencers to sell cheap products on TikTok. This deceptive practice exploits both consumers and the Black community, with one account even using a fake Black woman named Aliyah to hawk handmade metal buckles.
Researchers propose a new AI system that could make online shopping more tailored to individual tastes. The method aims to create more cohesive and personalized storefronts by breaking away from rigid, component-based designs.
Amazon is integrating its AI assistant, Alexa, directly into its shopping site. This means you'll soon chat with Alexa when searching for products. It's designed to make shopping easier and more personalized.
Ecom-RLVE is a new open-source framework designed to create verifiable and adaptive environments for e-commerce conversational agents. It aims to enhance the reliability and performance of AI-driven customer interactions.
Researchers introduce RiskWebWorld, a realistic benchmark for evaluating GUI agents in high-stakes e-commerce risk management. It features 1,513 tasks from production risk-control pipelines, addressing a gap in current benchmarks.