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Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions and other new features aimed at customers using AI agents, the retailer announced on Wednesday. The move comes shortly after Walmart’s top competitor, Amazon, began blocking AI agents from making purchases on behalf of online shoppers.

Americans like to shop. For a lot of consumers, the act of browsing and filling a digital or physical cart isn’t a point of friction but a way of life — just ask Costco influencers.

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Amazon has blocked Meta’s artificial intelligence agent Muse from its storefront. A platform battle is brewing as agentic e-commerce transactions reach 7.7 billion dollars globally in 2026.

The app now ranks #1 in the App Store and Google Play for free downloads, and it’s garnering rave reviews across social media. A New York Timesreviewer said he was “blown away” by Muse, and called it “the most useful A.I. app I had ever used.”

Most people have sent a friend to pick up an order. The store rarely cares who walks in, as long as the bill clears.

A security researcher has released proof-of-concept code for a new Microsoft Defender vulnerability that can prevent the antivirus platform from installing security-intelligence and platform updates across supported versions of Windows.

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.

Amazon.com Inc. has blocked Meta Platforms Inc.’s Muse artificial intelligence agent from accessing its e-commerce marketplace.

A Montana law regulating the use of generative artificial intelligence in campaign ads has been dealt a blow by a federal judge on the basis of freedom of speech concerns.