Wall Street Lunch: Meta's Muse Teams With Shopify After Amazon Ban

Shopify partnered with Meta to let consumers complete Muse AI-driven purchases through Shop Pay, expanding Shopify's position in AI-enabled commerce after Amazon blocked Muse from its platform. Separately, Alibaba outlined an aggressive AI roadmap, with Qwen 4 currently in training and future Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 models planned at up to 10 trillion parameters. The developments underscore intensifying competition among major platforms to control AI shopping experiences and foundational-model capabilities.