AI firms are promoting shopping as a new area of growth for chatbots, and retail giants and payments companies don’t want to be left out. That’s spawned a web of partnerships among companies that ...

Big tech has big plans for bots that will do all your buying for you.

The holiday shopping wars have sparked an AI arms race — the retail industry's biggest technology experiment since the dawn of e-commerce. Why it matters: Retailers and tech giants — from Target and ...