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Amazon has drawn a hard line on AI agents shopping on its site, blocking Meta’s Muse assistant after quietly pressing the company to stay off Amazon.com voluntarily. It’s the clearest sign yet that the fight over who controls the checkout button is just getting started.
Today we are covering:
Amazon blocks Meta‘s Muse AI shopping assistant from its site, escalating a standoff over unauthorized agentic shopping
Google unveils Googlebooks, a new line of Android laptops starting at $899 with built-in Gemini AI tools
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fines Google €403 million over how it handled users’ location data
