Agentic Shopping Is Worse for Everyone (opens in new tab)

I am tortured in new and exciting ways by the latest developments in technology. Today, as a part of Google I/O, Google announced the "Universal Cart" and another push towards "agentic shopping", this time with backing from a large variety of retail partners. In this piece, I'll explore how shopping is another front of the culture war, AI continues to gild shit, and these developments push us towards new and awful futures. The above image was from The Verge's live coverage Google I/O, and was...