Alibaba's Alipay launches a new "all-in-one" platform for businesses to use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock jumps 5%+ and is up 40%+ since June (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/alibaba-shares-jump-5-as-alipay-launches-new-merchant-platform"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260818/i9.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260818/p9#a260818p9" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jeanny Yu / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/alibaba-shares-jump-5-as-alipay-launches-new-merchant-platform">Alibaba's Alipay launches a new &ldquo;all-in-one&rdquo; platform for businesses to use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock jumps 5%+ and is up 40%+ since June</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares rose the most in two weeks as the launch of a new ecommerce platform boosted optimism toward &hellip; </p>