The three biggest agentic commerce trends from NRF 2026 (5 minute read)
Agentic commerce is rapidly maturing, with retailers shifting focus from 'if' to 'how' to implement it at scale while maintaining trust and control.

Leaders 💼 | 2026-03-16
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Agentic commerce is rapidly maturing, with retailers shifting focus from 'if' to 'how' to implement it at scale while maintaining trust and control.
Stripe acquires Metronome, the industry leader in usage-based billing, to build the most flexible and complete billing solution for companies of all sizes.
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Stripe is now the first and only provider that supports both agentic network tokens and buy now, pay later tokens in agentic commerce through a single primitive..
State-of-the-art LLMs can now solve a majority of scoped coding problems, but it’s an open question whether they can fully autonomously manage software engineering projects. We spent months building evaluation environments to benchmark how well AI...
A more exciting MacBook Pro is waiting in the wings, but the M5 Max shows the continued success of Apple Silicon..
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