Earlier this year, Google introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to enable AI agents, businesses, and payment providers to communicate and transact through a shared framework. Then came Universal Cart, the company’s new intelligent shopping hub that brings products from across its ecosystem into a single, AI-powered destination. If you rewind a bit further, Adobe reported that traffic from generative AI tools to U.S. retail sites jumped nearly 1,300% YoY…