{"id":178424,"date":"2026-01-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/google-deepens-ai-investments-that-impact-retail\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:10:17","slug":"google-deepens-ai-investments-that-impact-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/google-deepens-ai-investments-that-impact-retail\/","title":{"rendered":"Google deepens AI investments that impact retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/blog\/google-deepens-ai-investments-that-impact-retail\">Google deepens AI investments that impact retail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/blog\/google-deepens-ai-investments-that-impact-retail\">https:\/\/nrf.com\/blog\/google-deepens-ai-investments-that-impact-retail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"nrf.com\">nrf.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, emphasized the transformative role of AI in retail at NRF 2026: Retail\u2019s Big Show.<\/li>\n<li>Pichai discussed the significant impact AI will have on the retail industry, comparing it to the transitions from physical stores to the web and then to mobile.<\/li>\n<li>Google has invested heavily in the full stack of AI, from technical infrastructure to research and products driven by increasing intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>The collaboration between Google and retailers aims to create a seamless shopping experience where AI personalizes contexts and improves agents\u2019 efficiency in handling tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Over 50 billion product listings, updated hourly, enable AI to enhance search from keywords to more natural conversations, streamlining the shopping process.<\/li>\n<li>Pichai envisions a future where AI-driven agents can assist shoppers from the discovery to the purchase phase, aiding them in finding what they want and making informed decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google deepens AI investments that impact retail https:\/\/nrf.com\/blog\/google-deepens-ai-investments-that-impact-retail Publish Date: 2026-01-12 03:00:00 Source Domain: nrf.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a-us.storyblok.com\/f\/1021220\/1500x1000\/8f4dd4758a\/nrf-big-show-2026-sundar-pichai-alphabet-and-google-ceo-announces-agentic-shopping-at-nrf26.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178426,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178424\/revisions\/178426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}