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AI · Feb 12, 2026

The Marketplace Extinction Event: Why eBay and Amazon Are Fighting AI Agents for Survival

eBay is banning AI shopping bots. Amazon is suing them. Google just shipped live checkout through them. The platforms that built e-commerce are scrambling to avoid becoming back-end infrastructure nobody sees.

AI · Feb 11, 2026 · 7 min read

Consumers Want AI Agents to Shop for Them. A Calendar Invite Can Hijack the Whole Thing.

70 percent of consumers are ready to let AI agents handle their shopping. A CVSS 10.0 vulnerability shows why the security model is not ready to let them.

AI · Feb 9, 2026 · 9 min read

From Chatbot to Coworker: The Week AI Agents Went Corporate

OpenAI and Anthropic shipped agent management platforms within hours of each other. The message is clear: stop talking to AI and start managing it.

Commerce · Feb 6, 2026

When Agents Trade with Agents: The Next Frontier of B2B Commerce

Enterprise automation just got a payment rail: OpenAI's new agent platform meets Mastercard's agentic tools, and B2B transactions without humans are no longer theoretical.

AI · Feb 5, 2026

The Agent Org Chart: When Your Workforce Isn't Human

OpenAI's new platform frames AI agents as enterprise employees, raising a question enterprise leadership will face: what happens when headcount is measured in agents, not people?

AI · Feb 5, 2026

Apple Bets on Agentic Coding

Apple does not partner easily. The company that builds its own chips, designs its own operating systems, and famously controls every layer of its stack announced on February 3 that it is integrating AI coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI directly into…

AI · Feb 3, 2026

When Your AI Takes Out Credit

Last week, Klarna joined Google's Universal Commerce Protocol. The largest buy now, pay later provider in the West is now plugging into the infrastructure that lets AI agents shop on your behalf.

AI · Jan 24, 2026

When Your AI Does the Shopping

We had set this up months ago and mostly forgotten about it. The bag was running low, and Alexa, connected to an Amazon account with voice purchasing enabled, placed the order without asking. The confirmation email arrived during a meeting.