📦 The Order : Weekly Roundup - Remark & Shopify x OpenAI

Issue #223

Happy Sunday,

Here’s a quick roundup of last week’s news:

Chart of the Week:

In ‘It's Prime Day Everywhere’ Marketplace Pulse digs into next weeks core sales events:

AI News of the Weeks 🤖

Shopify announced the next level of its collaboration with OpenAI this week (X Post) with functionality to search products, add items to cart, and create checkout links:

AI Food for Thought 🍔

What’s the role of an AI agent in your brand operations?

Here’s a framework based on a paper published last month ‘Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce’ (by Yijia Shao , Humishka Zope et al):

Time to optimize for Q4 starts July 14 🍁

As Prime Day wraps up, the ideal window to optimize for seasonal spikes this fall opens up. Ready to blend listing content automation into your workflows?

Here’s how AutopilotBrand is allowing you to run this at scale - 👉 get your custom evaluation now.

Movers & Shakers 🙌

• Remark raises $16M to build out human-powered expert models for e-commerce [TechCrunch]

Strategy ♟

• Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses [Wall Street Journal]

• Amazon released APIs to support the programmatic management of brand stores [Amazon Ads]

• Global expansion push: ‘Tariff turmoil spurs online merchants to look abroad’ [Modern Retail]

• Brands grapple with strained cash flow amid tariffs [Modern Retail]

• TikTok layoffs: Employees of TikTok’s ecommerce business face layoffs [The Economic Times]

Events 🎤

• NRF Nexus, Ranchos Palos Verdes, CA July 14-16

• Amazon Solution Provider Summit, Seattle July 15-17

• Amazon Ads Developer Summit, New York Aug 5-6

• Amazon Accelerate, Seattle Sep 16-18

• Amazon UnBoxed, Nashville Nov 10-12

Make this week count - A full Prime Week is about to start 🙌

Christian