Google’s ‘Universal Cart’ is your new AI shopping assistant

Among the many AI-powered features announced May 19 at Google I/O 2026 is a new “intelligent shopping cart” designed to help you find items faster and make purchasing more seamless. Universal Cart is an agentic hub that works across Google, so you can add products from multiple merchants while using Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail to a single shopping cart.
Key Takeaways

Universal Cart is an agentic hub that works across Google, so you can add products from multiple merchants to a single cart.