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Tobi Lutke

@tobi
94 posts
2026-01-12
Shopify is building the foundation for agentic commerce.  Universal Commerce Protocol, which we co-developed with Google, is now live.  UCP will make it faster for agents and retailers to integrate.  It's open by default, so platforms and agents can use UCP to start transacting with any merchant.  Major retailers are already using it.  Agents can handle everything from discovery to fulfillment, and support things like discounts, subscriptions, and loyalty programs.  We've accounted for all types of commerce.
2026-01-12 View on X
TechCrunch

Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard that lets AI agents work across customer buying processes, from discovery to support

Google today announced a new open standard, called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference.

2025-12-10
Shopify: The RenAIssance Edition Sidekick updates, Agentic Storefronts for merchants, new tools for devs building commerce agents, AI simulations, and more 🧵 [video]
2025-12-10 View on X
Adweek

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts

Shopify is taking a big step forward in its much-watched advertising business.  The e-commerce firm is formally rolling out a product that allows its merchants …

2025-11-30
Congratulations to our merchants on another record breaking Black Friday. LFG → Merchants total Black Friday sales were $6.2 billion, up 25% YoY → Edge peaked at 489 million requests per minute. App servers handled a peak of 117 million requests per minute, up 40% from last
2025-11-30 View on X
Forbes

Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B

Joan Verdon is a veteran retail reporter based in Northern New Jersey.  —  Consumers spent record amounts online on Black Friday …

2025-10-20
This should be good upgrade for commerce on X
2025-10-20 View on X
Engadget

X is “testing a new link experience” that opens links without fully covering an X post, letting users see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS

to make it easier for your followers to engage with your post while browsing links.  For creators, a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach.  This is bec...

2025-10-17
New publication doing real journalism and it's as amazing as they said it was. Imagine that.
2025-10-17 View on X
Colossus

A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's investments in GitHub and Stripe and its role in reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI's CEO in November 2023

which is why you never find anyone from the Bilal Zuberi / @bznotes : Since it is @JoshuaKushner appreciation day, I should mention how he interned at General Catalyst in Boston wh...

2025-09-30
Shopify merchants will be able to sell directly in ChatGPT. We've been working with @OpenAI for quite some time so people can search and buy products in chat, and it's something we've had a hard time keeping quiet. Rollout is coming very very soon. [video]
2025-09-30 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants

the chatbot will start letting its 700,000,000 users shop directly from their chats Jibin Joseph / PCMag : ChatGPT Now Lets You Make Purchases Without Leaving the App Nishit Singh ...

2025-09-18
The Meta Ray-Ban Displays are absolutely amazing. I used them. You have to try them out. https://www.meta.com/...
2025-09-18 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta debuts $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, with a screen in the right lens and hand gesture detection via the Meta Neural Band wristband, on sale from September 30

Meta Platforms Inc., seeking to turn its burgeoning smart glasses into a must-have product, on Wednesday unveiled its first version with a built-in screen.

2025-08-28
4chan is suing the UK government over their speech laws. The opening is quite something. [image]
2025-08-28 View on X
404 Media

4chan and Kiwi Farms sue the UK's Ofcom in a US court over the Online Safety Act, saying they aren't subject to UK law, after Ofcom tried to fine and block them

https://www.404media.co/... Forums: BeauHD / Slashdot : 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over Its Age Verification Law

2025-08-14
The U.S. can lead the way in open banking. I co-signed this letter to push for more space to innovate in this field
2025-08-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and 80+ fintech and crypto CEOs urge Trump to block US banks from charging fees to access customer data

Top fintech and crypto executives urged the Trump administration to block US banks from charging fees for access to customer data …

2025-07-30
Love this.
2025-07-30 View on X
Wired

OpenAI debuts a ChatGPT study mode, designed to guide students through learning material at their level, available to logged-in Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users

OpenAI's new study mode for ChatGPT throws questions back at students, but the learning feature doesn't address generative AI's underlying disruption of education.

2025-06-28
I really like the term “context engineering” over prompt engineering. It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.
2025-06-28 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

The term “context engineering” is gaining traction over “prompt engineering” as it better describes the skill of providing LLMs with the necessary information

I've spoken favorably of prompt engineering in the past - I hoped that term could capture the inherent complexity of constructing reliable prompts.

2025-06-13
This work will also allow us to offer buyer incentives like 1% cash back in the future. And it's all transparent to merchants, they will simply get normal local currency payouts the same as usual (unless you choose to keep it as USDC!). Stripe helped us make this totally seamless
2025-06-13 View on X
CoinDesk

Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants

The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.

Shopify will enable USDC (Stablecoins on @Base ) in Checkout via Shopify Payments and Shop Pay.  Early access starts today, roll out throughout the year.  We think that stablecoins are a natural way to transact on the Internet and worked with coinbase to develop the commerce payment protocol smart contract that powers this work
2025-06-13 View on X
CoinDesk

Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants

The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.

2025-04-08
I heard this internal memo of mine is being leaked right now, so here it is: [image]
2025-04-08 View on X
CNBC

Memo: Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke says using AI is now a “fundamental expectation” and that teams asking for more resources must first show why AI can't do the job

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is changing his company's approach to hiring in the age of artificial intelligence.

Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify
2025-04-08 View on X
CNBC

Memo: Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke says using AI is now a “fundamental expectation” and that teams asking for more resources must first show why AI can't do the job

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is changing his company's approach to hiring in the age of artificial intelligence.

2025-03-28
How is this even real? OpenAI cooked [image]
2025-03-28 View on X
TechCrunch

After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns

here's 7 incredible examples of what it can do Kirk / Geek News Central Podcast : ChatGPT's New Image Model Sparks Additional Copyright Controversies #1810 Spencer Neale / The Amer...

How is this even real? OpenAI cooked [image]
2025-03-28 View on X
Reservoir Samples

OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm”

Navigating responsibility and user freedom, and how that influenced setting the Day 1 policy for 4o image generation in ChatGPT X: @altryne , @nexuist , @sterlingcrispin , @borismp...

2025-03-27
How is this even real? OpenAI cooked [image]
2025-03-27 View on X
TechCrunch

After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns

It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes …

@sama Pls implement HTTP Streaming transport that just landed in the spec 🥹
2025-03-27 View on X
TechCrunch

Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, an open-source standard that connects AI models to data for more relevant answers

OpenAI is embracing rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides.

2025-03-26
How is this even real? OpenAI cooked [image]
2025-03-26 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

In an addendum to the GPT-4o System Card, OpenAI says it is “not blocking the capability to generate adult public figures” and that public figures can opt out

Introducing 4o Image Generation.  When OpenAI first announced GPT-4o back in May 2024 one of the most exciting features …