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Shopify has released Shopcast, a new tvOS app that turns Apple TV into a real-time dashboard for merchants. It shows sales, orders, best-selling products, and order origins across an interactive globe, with views for revenue, retail, and geography that refresh throughout the day.
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, who last year told employees that using AI was a 'baseline expectation,' now says the push has flooded the company with low-quality AI output he calls 'slop grenades.' He described workers generating unreviewed AI content that colleagues then have to catch and fix, undermining the productivity gains he originally sought.
In an interview, Payoneer CEO John Caplan described how the 22-year-old fintech now serves two million customers across 190 countries, processing roughly $100 billion annually for entrepreneurs selling on platforms like Amazon, Shopify and Etsy. Caplan said the company has grown into a billion-dollar revenue business with nearly $300 million in adjusted EBITDA since he took over, up from a $500 million operation.
Shopify announced it is reversing its 2020 decision to standardize on React Native, moving its mobile engineering back to fully native development using Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android. The company says rapid improvements in AI coding models have erased the productivity cost of maintaining two native codebases, which was the main reason it adopted a cross-platform framework in the first place.
Tailwind Labs, creator of the widely used Tailwind CSS framework, announced it is joining Shopify. The framework, installed over 110 million times weekly and used by companies like OpenAI, X, Cloudflare and Reddit, will now be developed within Shopify's product ecosystem rather than as a standalone business.
Shopify COO Jess Hertz said the $185 billion e-commerce company is shifting its hiring criteria toward what she calls 'X-shaped people'—workers with multiple deep areas of expertise rather than one specialty paired with broad general skills. She explained this change is driven by AI's growing role in the workplace, which demands employees who can absorb complexity and work fluidly across disciplines. Hertz made the comments on the Rapid Response podcast, noting Shopify recently posted $3.58 billion in second-quarter revenue, up 34% year-over-year.
Anthropic has launched a developer blueprint that provides pre-built harnesses, patterns and guardrails for creating AI shopping and merchant agents using Claude. The kit includes reference implementations for retail, travel, telecom and ticketing use cases, plus a Claude Code plugin, and deploys across Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry and Google Cloud Vertex AI. Partners such as Accenture, Mastercard and Visa are collaborating to help merchants adopt the framework ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Shopify COO Jess Hertz says the company lets its engineering teams spend without limits on AI tools, a bet that's paying off as revenue climbs 34% even as headcount holds steady. Hertz frames this as part of Shopify's push to build the infrastructure that lets AI agents discover and purchase products on behalf of consumers, a shift away from the old model where big-budget brands dominated search rankings.