‘Tis the season for holiday shopping with our latest AI shopping updates 🎁

AI-Powered Shopping Enhancements - Google Shopping introduces AI Mode in Search, providing intelligently organized responses with rich visuals like shoppable images [1] - Gemini app integrates shopping-related questions, offering helpful ideas, product listings, prices, and purchase locations [2] - Google can call stores on behalf of users to check stock, prices, and promotions [2][3] Automated Assistance & Price Tracking - Google's AI checks stock, prices, and promos, then sends users an email or text with the answers, along with an inventory from nearby stores [3] - Google offers an agentic checkout feature to track prices and automatically purchase items within a specified budget using Google Pay [4]