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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Websites increasingly block personal AI agents; Meta and partners developing open agent-to-agent commerce protocol

Users of personal AI agents (including Meta’s Muse, Instinct, and ChatGPT’s Dots) are encountering blocks from websites — for example Amazon has blocked Muse from browsing/purchasing — often due to intentional restrictions or legacy anti-bot checks that interrupt agent flows. To address interoperability and to help distinguish authorized agent activity, Meta says it and partners (Walmart, Stripe, Sierra, Genesys, Rocket, NiCE, Decagon and others) are working on an open agent-to-agent commerce standard focused on online transactions.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

TikTok launches AI Shopping Assistant and one-click in-app checkout

TikTok announced an AI-powered Shopping Assistant that offers conversational, context-aware shopping guidance and remembers user preferences, plus a new one-click in-app checkout enabling purchases directly from the For You feed. The features are being built with commerce and payment partners including Shopify, Stripe, Salesforce, and Shoplazza and aim to keep more of the shopping journey inside TikTok.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Meta’s Muse assistant stores persistent ‘Memory’ and prompts users to link more data

Meta’s new Muse AI assistant, promoted across Instagram and available on WhatsApp and Messenger, has been downloaded over 900,000 times in its first week (Sensor Tower). The app uses a virtual browsing agent and a persistent “Memory” document to store user preferences and interactions, can connect to email, banking (via Stripe) and other services, and currently offers no global toggle to disable its Memory feature—though users can edit or request wipes.

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