Amazon blocked Meta's AI shopping agent Muse from completing purchases on Amazon.com, issuing unauthorized-access and terms-of-service violation warnings after Meta failed to request access permission…
Amazon blocked Meta's new AI shopping assistant Muse from its website on Sunday, telling shoppers that continued access by an "unauthorised AI agent" breached its conditions of use. Amazon said Meta d…
Zhou Yu, co-founder of Arklex AI and a professor at Columbia University, stated that 95% of AI agents remain in demos and fail to create real value, during a presentation on simulation-driven agent te…
On February 10th, Amazon's product discovery bot scraped over 3,000 page requests from a client's e-commerce site in a single day, leading to the unauthorized creation of a 'Shop Other Stores Directly…
A developer is using AI agents to create a Mac OS disk utility app that mimics the open-source Windows tool Rufus, without needing to learn Swift. The engineer, who was laid off, used Claude Sonnet 4.…
AI browser agents such as Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Operator are increasingly performing tasks like shopping and booking on behalf of users, prompting startups to reconsider building websites as…
Walmart CEO John Furner said customers using its AI assistant Sparky have an average order value 35% higher than non-users, and Sensor Tower data shows 44% of Amazon app sessions using Alexa for Shopp…
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a lower court's ban that had stopped Perplexity from using its AI shopping agents on Amazon's platform, ruling that Amazon was unlikely to win its claim that…
Developer Giles Hall released a userscript that removes Amazon's 'Alexa for Shopping' (formerly Rufus) AI sidebar and reclaims the reserved gutter space. The script uses multiple layers of defense, in…
Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus, which handles over $12 billion in annualized sales, now directs shoppers to buy products from brands outside Amazon's marketplace through its Buy for Me feature, …
Amazon hosted its annual Bring Your Kids to Work Day at HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia, on June 26, featuring 15 interactive stations where children explored AI, robotics, and sustainability, including bu…
Amidia AI published a step-by-step guide for installing macOS on AMD hardware using OpenCore Legacy Patcher. The guide covers compatibility checks, EFI generation, USB mapping, config.plist editing, a…
Wimbledon's hawk Rufus, who has kept pigeons away from the grounds for 18 years, may eventually be replaced by AI drones, his handler Donna Davis acknowledged, though current technology is not sophist…
US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn on Prime Day, with AI chatbot referrals converting 40% better than search, email, or social media for the first time. Adobe data shows AI-referred traffic to retail …
Amazon is heavily promoting its AI assistants, Alexa and Rufus, during Prime Day to transform the shopping experience, but early evidence shows shoppers are using them more as fact-checkers than compa…
Amazon moved Prime Day 2026 to June 23-26, breaking from its July tradition, as it rolls out Alexa for Shopping to replace Rufus and shift product discovery from search to AI-powered conversations. Th…
Amazon has integrated advertising into its AI-powered shopping assistant Alexa for Shopping, allowing sponsored products and conversational ad formats to appear directly within customer shopping conve…
This article provides instructions for creating a bootable USB stick to update a Lenovo laptop's BIOS using a Mac or Linux system. It explains how to download the BIOS update as an ISO file, extract i…