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Google and PayPal: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent Revolution Is Here

Agentic shopping is here.

By Travis Hoium – Sep 19, 2025 at 3:26PM EST

Alphabet's (GOOG +0.27%) (GOOGL +0.20%) Google has made some big leaps forward in artificial intelligence this year, and this week, it announced an agentic shopping platform with PayPal (PYPL +0.60%). Could these be the best companies to build the agentic shopping future? Travis Hoium digs into the news in this video.

*Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Sept. 17, 2025. The video was published on Sept. 19, 2025.

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Travis Hoium
Travis Hoium is a contributing Motley Fool stock market analyst covering solar energy, technology, and growth stocks. Before The Motley Fool, Travis was a mechanical engineer at 3M and founded a virtual reality company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Minnesota.
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Travis Hoium has positions in Alphabet and PayPal. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Alphabet, DoorDash, PayPal, and Target. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2027 $42.50 calls on PayPal and short September 2025 $77.50 calls on PayPal. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Travis Hoium is an affiliate of The Motley Fool and may be compensated for promoting its services. If you choose to subscribe through their link they will earn some extra money that supports their channel. Their opinions remain their own and are unaffected by The Motley Fool.

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Alphabet
NASDAQ: GOOG
$383.22
(+0.34%)+$1.28
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NASDAQ: GOOGL
$385.58
(+0.20%)+$0.78
Target Stock Quote
Target
NYSE: TGT
$128.89
(-0.66%)-$0.86
PayPal Stock Quote
PayPal
NASDAQ: PYPL
$50.44
(+0.60%)+$0.30
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DoorDash
NASDAQ: DASH
$175.83
(+4.26%)+$7.18

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