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