Walmart and Amazon Diverge on AI Agents, Reshaping E-Commerce Control

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

Meta Muse Hits iPad With 6.6M Installs as Agent Identity Standard Takes Shape

Meta Muse Hits iPad With 6.6M Installs as Agent Identity Standard Takes Shape

Meta’s Muse assistant arrived on iPad on October 7, 2026, roughly a month after its September 8 debut on iOS and Android — a multidplatform rollout pace it took Instagram some 15 years to match. The app has already passed 6.6 million installs, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, and Meta used … Read more

Wing and Walmart Expand Drone Delivery to Denver and Seattle in 2027

Wing and Walmart Expand Drone Delivery to Denver and Seattle in 2027

Wing, Alphabet’s drone-delivery subsidiary, and Walmart will launch aerial delivery across the Denver and Seattle metropolitan areas in 2027, extending what the pair calls the largest residential drone delivery footprint in the United States. The build-out targets more than 270 Walmart stores and roughly 40 million customers once complete. Two new metros: Denver and Seattle … Read more