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Amazon packages its Alexa for Shopping engine for rival retailers

Amazon has begun selling its conversational shopping assistant technology to retailers it competes with, as Roger Dunn has flagged. The announcement is the AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant (ASA), built by the AWS Generative AI Innovation Centre, which packages the architecture, starter code, and lessons learned from Amazon's own Alexa for Shopping: recently rebranded from Rufus: for external retailers.

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Amazon retires Rufus and replaces it with Alexa for shopping: the AI assistant goes agentic

Amazon has retired the Rufus AI shopping assistant and replaced it with Alexa for shopping, in a structural pivot that turns the AI shopping experience from passive Q&A to agentic recommendation and execution. Christian Umbach has flagged the launch with the most detailed structural read; Roger Dunn captures the strategic significance ("Amazon just turned Rufus into an agent"); Vanessa Hung provides additional context on Amazon's long-running voice-commerce strategy dating back to 2014.

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OpenAI takes 4% commission on ChatGPT instant checkout sales

OpenAI is charging a 4% fee on every sale made through ChatGPT's instant checkout. Starting January 26, Shopify merchants can opt in to sell directly through ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot.

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