Google’s new Universal Cart wants to follow you across the entire internet
Google introduced Universal Cart and the Agent Payments Protocol to transform AI assistants into active participants in online shopping and autonomous commerce.Summary
Google has unveiled Universal Cart, a centralized hub designed to track products, monitor price drops, and provide shopping insights across Google services like Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail. The feature aims to unify the fragmented shopping experience by allowing users to manage items from various merchants in one place.
Beyond simple organization, Google introduced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), which enables AI agents to make secure, autonomous purchases on behalf of users within pre-set spending and brand constraints. By leveraging its Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), Google is positioning itself as a central intermediary in the consumer purchasing journey, offering tools that check for product compatibility and provide deeper integration with Google Wallet.
(Source：TechCrunch)