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Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com

153 points · 162 comments · simianwords

  1. fmajid · · focus · HN ↗
    Amazon’s enterprise value is made up entirely of AWS and Amazon’s advertising business. Thus according to Wall Street their e-commerce is a loss-leader whose only purpose is to provide inventory for ads. Agents shopping on Amazon do not show Amazon ads and are thus antithetical to Amazon’s business model and need to be blocked.
    1. logancbrown · · focus · HN ↗
      Amazon doesn't provide financial breakdowns between Ads & E-commerce fulfillment and inventory costs, so take the Wall Street article with a grain of salt.
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