Over the past quarter, Google released an agentic commerce standard, representing a major threat to Amazon’s deeply entrenched e-commerce business, and Anthropic is now going after IBM’s mainstay mainframe business with new coding capabilities that threaten to reduce the industry’s dependency on legacy systems. In recent weeks, Google announced an agentic Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) to eliminate the need for retailers to maintain complex infrastructures necessary to shore up their online purchasing ...