Google wants to own your entire shopping journey with Universal Cart and agent-led payments (opens in new tab)

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