Walmart and Amazon Diverge on AI Agents, Reshaping E-Commerce Control
Walmart is giving AI agents a dedicated front door. On Oct. 21, it unveiled an Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles that let approved assistants shop for customers across Walmart and Sam’s Club, with separate identities, default approvals and optional spending caps. Amazon chose the opposite path: it sued Perplexity, blocked Meta’s Muse and invoked its … Read more