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Claude launches product cards as AI-driven retail traffic surges 138%

Retail / DTC › Warehouse Clubs, Supercenters, and Other General Merchandise Retailers › Warehouse Clubs and Supercenters

Claude has begun displaying product cards across multiple categories, signaling a move toward agentic commerce capabilities, while Adobe reports retail sales via answer engines grew 138% year-over-year. For commerce teams, this convergence means answer-engine traffic is now worth 53% more per visit and could reduce product returns by 69%.

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Thrad builds ad infrastructure for LLM answer engines globally

Retail / DTC › Warehouse Clubs, Supercenters, and Other General Merchandise Retailers › Warehouse Clubs and Supercenters

Thrad, a Silicon Valley startup led by CCO Roger Dunn, is building the supply and demand infrastructure for advertising in conversational AI surfaces, offering brands self-serve access to run ads across LLM inventory beyond ChatGPT's four-country rollout. For commerce practitioners, this unlocks new ad formats—sponsored messages, prompts, and product carousels—and a shift from keyword bidding to persona-based prompt targeting where challenger brands can own their niche.

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Google launches AI-driven ad formats and agents for commerce platforms

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Google announced roughly 70 new advertising features at its Marketing Live event, including three AI Mode ad formats—Direct Offers, Conversational Discovery, and Highlighted Answers—plus Ask Advisor and expanded Demand Gen integrations with Merchant Center feeds. Commerce teams can now leverage AI-generated ads and agentic tools to scale campaigns, optimize creative assets, and connect product feeds to creator-driven video content at scale.

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