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TikTok launches an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout

TikTok launches an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout

TikTok introduced Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that gives real-time guidance on product details, shipping and sizing, and Buy Direct, a one-click in-app checkout built on the Universal Commerce Protocol. The company said the features, built with Salesforce, Shopify, Shoplazza and Stripe, are its first agentic commerce experiences and are currently available to advertisers through eligibility-based testing.

NoteTikTok is pairing a shopping agent with direct payments so purchases happen inside the feed, the same agentic-commerce bet payment networks and banks are racing to support with their own rails and standards.

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