BigCommerce and Shopify Black Friday reports, GPT3 disruption in weekly eCommerce and around reads from Magenable - Issue #265

BigCommerce and Shopify Black Friday reports, GPT3 disruption and more in this issue.

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2022 Cyber Week Trends Report: A Huge Holiday Season for BigCommerce Merchants — www.bigcommerce.com Cyber Week 2022 may have come and gone, but it has left a lasting impression. Here are our key takeaways from this year’s busy season to keep in mind as we head into 2023.

Shopify Merchants Set New Black Friday Cyber Monday Record with $7.5 Billion in Sales — news.shopify.com As a global provider of essential internet infrastructure for commerce, Shopify announced today a record-setting Black Friday Cyber Monday weekend, with sales of $7.5 billion* from independent businesses worldwide. That’s a 19% increase in sales from the $6.3 billion during Shopify’s Black Friday Cy

ChatGPT and How AI Disrupts Industries — hbr.org ChatGPT, from OpenAI, shows the power of AI to take on tasks traditionally associated with “knowledge work.” But the future won’t just involve tasks shifting from humans to machines. When technology enables more people to complete a task, with help from a machine, the result is typically entirely new systems with new business models and jobs and workflows. AI will be no different: To truly unlock the potential of ChatGPT, the world will need new and different kinds of organizations.

Perspective | How Amazon shopping ads are disguised as real results - Washington Post — www.washingtonpost.com Most of what you see at first on Amazon is now an ad.