{
  "id": 16807363,
  "title": "Block’s Dessa Fixes the Conversation, Not the Checkout",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/blocks-dessa-fixes-the-conversation-not-the-checkout",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-27T21:58:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/block-dessa-fixes-conversation-not-checkout/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Voice commerce has faced the same obstacles for a decade, including turning spoken requests into accurate orders, verifying customer identity and completing payments without delays. In 2016, PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster wrote about the potential of voice-enabled payments through Amazon’s Alexa. What Alexa could not yet prove was that the device knew who was talking […] The post Block’s Dessa Fixes…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}