NEWS/16 OCT

AI news for small business, Friday, 16 October 2026

5 stories worth five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.

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Google launches Universal Cart in the US: one shopping cart across Search and Gemini, with the merchant still the seller

Shoppers can now save products from many stores in one Google cart and get price-drop and back-in-stock alerts.

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