Google Says AI Agents Spending Your Money Is a 'More Fun' Way to Shop
The shopping hub tracks deals, price drops and compatibility issues while AP2 lets authorized AI agents buy within user-set limits.
- On Tuesday, Google unveiled Universal Cart, an AI-powered shopping hub that consolidates products from Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail into a single persistent cart.
- Google positions the service as part of a broader 'agentic commerce' strategy to become the orchestration layer between shoppers and merchants, competing with Amazon, which recently integrated its Rufus chatbot and Alexa assistant.
- Using Gemini, the tool identifies product incompatibilities like mismatched PC components and surfaces personalized payment perks through Google Wallet to optimize savings.
- Alongside the cart, Google updated its Agent Payments Protocol , allowing AI agents to make secure purchases on behalf of users within defined spending limits and permanent audit trails.
- Universal Cart launches for U.S. users this summer, with YouTube and Gmail integrations arriving later this year; Google plans to expand its Universal Commerce Protocol to Canada and Australia in the coming months.
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Google launches Universal Cart and updates AP2 at I/O 2026
Google has unveiled Universal Cart, an AI-powered shopping hub announced at I/O 2026 that lets users add products from across its ecosystem, Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail, into a single persistent cart. The feature, rolling out in the US today, represents the company’s most ambitious bid yet to become the default middleman in online commerce. Universal Cart […] This story continues at The Next Web
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