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Amazon’s fight with Meta: Who owns the customer relationship when an agent does the buying?

Amazon’s decision to block Meta’s Muse AI agent from shopping on its site raises questions about whether the big platforms will agree on rules for agents, how money will change hands, and whether shoppers want agents in the first place. Read More

Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI assistant in new standoff over agentic shopping

Amazon says it has cut off Meta’s new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com, citing data security and other concerns. It’s part of a larger industry fight over who controls the shopping experience and customer relationship in agentic commerce. Read More

This civic activist used AI to assess how state Supreme Court candidates might rule on the millionaires’ tax

Viet Nguyen, a Seattle communications executive and former political campaign manager, used AI to build Culliton2026.org, a site that gauges how candidates for the Washington Supreme Court might rule on the state’s new millionaires’ tax. Critics call the whole premise faulty. Read More

Prime Day shows how AI is changing shopping, testing Amazon’s bet against ChatGPT and others

Adobe found that shoppers who reached retail sites through AI chatbots were 40% more likely to buy during Prime Day than those from search, email or social media — the first time AI-referred traffic converted best. Amazon has blocked rival shopping agents from its store while building its own assistant. Read More

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Amazon’s fight with Meta: Who owns the customer relationship when an agent does the buying?

Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI assistant in new standoff over agentic shopping

This civic activist used AI to assess how state Supreme Court candidates might rule on the millionaires’ tax

Prime Day shows how AI is changing shopping, testing Amazon’s bet against ChatGPT and others

Judge blocks Perplexity’s AI bot from shopping on Amazon in early test of agentic commerce

Perplexity partners with Seattle startup Firmly to boost shopping features within AI search app

Perplexity acquires Carbon, a Seattle startup that helps developers connect data sources to LLMs