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Amazon kicked Meta’s Muse off its store because the agent never said what it was and seemed to be holding onto people’s passwords. A day later, Shopify let Muse into every one of its stores. Why the two companies treated the same agent so differently says a lot about where AI shopping is headed. Planet…

Amazon (AMZN, Financials) is giving third-party merchants a new tool to automate ordinary e-commerce chores as it broadens the use of agentic artificial intelligence across its marketplace.

“Our vision was that they would never have to log into Seller Central. We would just bring it to them where they work,” Mary Beth Westmoreland, Amazon’s vice president of Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, told GeekWire.

Amazon expects to have 1,000 same-day delivery hubs up and running by 2031. The expansion strategy, known internally as Project Mercury, will increase the reach of its rapid-delivery network, according to a Seeking Alpha report. Amazon’s same-day fulfillment footprint is currently about 85, according to a Business Insider report, citing internal planning documents.

What’s more annoying than finding 30 nearly identical Amazon listings when you need one decent gift? Alexa for Shopping can clear up that mess. Describe the person, narrow your choices, compare products, and watch for a better price.

Today, Amazon CloudWatch introduces CloudWatch Omni, a unified observability experience for application and AI workloads that is app-centric, AI-powered, built on open standards, and delivered off-console. CloudWatch Omni is a purpose-built observability, evaluation, and experimentation solution for AI agents. It helps teams design, evaluate, and operate AI agents across any model provider, framework, or runtime,…

The retail industry finished out the summer with a strong monthly sales report, big news from Amazon on wages and same-day delivery, and a slew of early holiday promotions from major players such as Walmart, Target, and Best Buy.

The e-commerce giant — which is no stranger to the opt-out approach of agentic purchases — said it was not given advance notice Muse would access its shop.

Amazon is reportedly blocking Meta’s new AI agent Muse from shopping. As spotted by GeekWire, people attempting to use Muse to buy products from Amazon are now being served with a warning that doing so violates the online marketplace’s terms of use.

Today, we are announcing that xAI’s Grok 4.6 is available in Amazon Bedrock, adding a frontier model built for long-running agents, coding, and knowledge work to the Bedrock model catalog. Grok 4.6 launched on Bedrock on August 18, 2026. It offers a 500K token context window and supports configurable reasoning effort at four levels: low,…