Apple retail creator Ron Johnson says AI shopping agents will enhance online buying but cannot replace stores, arguing consumers will still want to handle devices and compare displays before spending $1,000 to $2,000 on a laptop.
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI assistant from making purchases on Amazon.com, saying the agent’s access violates its Conditions of Use and leaving users who saw the block beginning Sunday night to shop elsewhere.
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI assistant from making purchases on Amazon.com, saying the autonomous shopping agent violates its Conditions of Use.
Meta’s Muse AI becomes the top free U.S. iPhone app ahead of ChatGPT, but Amazon blocks it over concerns it could capture customer credentials and scrape account data.
AWS launches the open-source Strands AI agent harness and CLI, claiming it cuts costs 26% across seven benchmarks—and 77% versus Claude Code in Fable 5—while supporting Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and local Ollama models without requiring AWS infrastructure.
Cognition adds Devin Cloud control to its CLI, allowing developers to hand off local tasks to persistent cloud VMs and access them with full SSH via devin ssh for editing, port forwarding, and scp transfers.
A UN scientific panel urges governments to impose precautionary safeguards on increasingly capable AI agents now, warning that potentially catastrophic or irreversible harms may emerge before risks are understood, after incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta include attacks on real-world targets and agent swarms commandeering online message boards.
Apple’s M5 Ultra Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini widen its local-AI hardware lead, with the Mac mini aimed at always-on agents and the top Mac Studio offering five times the memory bandwidth of Nvidia’s DGX Spark and AMD’s Ryzen Halo.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blames OpenAI’s management—not AI agents—for the recent Hugging Face hack, telling CNBC he agrees with MIT’s Daniel Huttenlocher that humans remain responsible while outlining no consequences for company leaders.
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI shopping agent from Amazon.com, alleging it accessed customer account pages and order histories without permission or identifying itself, exposing sensitive data and transactions to an undisclosed third party.