B2B for All merchants — Shopify expanded native B2B features (company profiles, custom pricing, catalog segmentation, payment terms Net 15/30/60) beyond Plus to all plans.
shopify.com/news
EDI Integration for Purchase Orders — Winter '26 Edition added EDI sync from SPS Commerce and Crstl directly into Shopify as draft orders.
shopify.com/enterprise
Agentic Flow Generation — Engineering blog published "Flow generation through natural language: An agentic modeling approach" (May 12). Sidekick can now create B2B companies via natural language.
shopify.engineering
Spring 2026: B2B Expansion + Agentic AI — Shopify Spring edition focused on B2B expansion and agentic AI capabilities via Tinker framework.
ambaum.com
Performance — Merchants using Shopify B2B report up to 33% increase in self-serve orders and 20% increase in reorder frequency.
shopify.com
AI / LLM News
Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic — OpenAI co-founder joined Anthropic's pre-training team to launch a new team using Claude to accelerate pretraining research.
axios.com
Claude Opus 4.7 released — Now GA with improvements in advanced software engineering (especially hard tasks) and substantially better vision with higher-resolution image processing.
anthropic.com
Claude overtakes ChatGPT in U.S. business payments — More U.S. businesses paid for Claude than ChatGPT in April 2026, a first in the industry.
techtimes.com
PwC expands Claude deployment — PwC rolling out Claude Code and Cowork starting with U.S. teams; KPMG integrated Claude across core business.
anthropic.com
Code with Claude London event — Two-day developer event (May 19). Nearly half of attendees had shipped PRs written entirely by Claude.
technologyreview.com
Claude Code Community
May update: background sessions + Opus 4.7 default — /resume support for background sessions (claude --bg), fast mode defaults to Opus 4.7, plugin dependency enforcement added.
releasebot.io
Plugin ecosystem hits 418 packages — Community marketplace at claude-code-plugins namespace updated daily via GitHub Actions. Skills, agents, and MCP servers for legal, design, DevOps workflows.
github.com
Prismatic Skills for Claude Code released — New integration-focused skills enabling Claude Code to interact with iPaaS workflows directly.
devopsdigest.com
Tobi Lutke / Shopify Leadership
Homecoming keynote: AI to prevent stagnation — Lutke spoke at Shopify Homecoming about embracing AI across the company to prevent organizational stagnation and maintain competitive velocity.
betakit.com
AI as "fundamental expectation" — Continuing the company-wide mandate: no new hires unless teams justify why AI cannot do the job. AI proficiency is now part of performance reviews.
fastcompany.com
ERP / Integration / Middleware
SAP AI Agents at Hannover Messe 2026 — SAP embedding AI agents directly into operational workflows (planning, production, logistics, service). Shift from AI-as-reporting to AI-as-execution inside transactional processes.
erp.today
Gartner: Embedded AI in Cloud ERP drives 30% faster financial close by 2028 — New prediction underscores acceleration of AI-native ERP adoption.
gartner.com
Celigo leads mid-market ERP integration — Positioned as top choice for speed and standardization in ERP-focused workflows without complex custom middleware.
domo.com