What will it take for AI-powered purchases to become the norm?

Anyone who has spent time on the internet researching goods and doing lengthy price comparisons will be intrigued by developments in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for agentic commerce.

This new form of online shopping involves AI-powered agents – autonomous software systems that use reasoning, memory and external tools to complete multi-step tasks across different sites and platforms on their own.

They can carry out each stage of the buying process, from the initial search to comparing...