Meta’s Muse has started spending money on people’s behalf

It can browse Shopify stores directly and check out with Shop Pay
That same week, Amazon shut it out
The two companies’ stock prices split
Shopify up sixteen points in two days, Amazon going nowhere
Amazon also launched its own shopping agent last year
In its case against Perplexity, the appeals court lifted the injunction in early August
Saying people who place orders through agents are the users themselves
Money only cares about one thing
When the agent reaches the checkout counter, who puts the counter in front of it
I’m betting the first to bow will be the one locking the door
You can’t stop agent traffic; every time you block it, you hand the order to the neighbor instead