Amazon's Clash with ChatGPT: A Tug-of-War Over Shopping Data
Amazon's block on ChatGPT Shopping exposes the coming fight over product data, agent-mediated commerce, and who owns the customer path.
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Agentic Commerce, Explained: What OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol Means for Retail and SaaS
Agentic Commerce Protocol shows how AI assistants may become buyers, forcing retailers and SaaS platforms to rethink checkout itself.
The Overwhelming Surge of AI Crawlers: Challenges, Offenders, and the Path Forward
AI crawlers are overwhelming websites and exposing the mismatch between open-web ideals and industrial-scale data extraction.
When AI Becomes Your Shopkeeper: The Curious Case of Claudius
Anthropic's AI shopkeeper experiment shows both the charm and absurdity of letting an autonomous model run a small business.