Google's Universal Cart will keep an eye on your shopping

Key points

• Google is today announcing a raft of updates to Shopping, the most notable of which is likely its new Universal Cart.
• Universal Cart is a tool which aggregates all of your purchases under one roof and lets you shop from more places.
• In essence, you'll be able to add products to this cart from every corner of Google's mansion, including search, YouTube and Gmail.
• Once you've added a product to the cart, the system's agentic AI will get to work looking for the cheapest price, comparing price trends and letting you know where said desirable objects are in stock.
• One key benefit of Universal Cart is that it's been designed to anticipate problems you might not have thought about.