Your marketplace just put up a wall: some AI agents are in, some are locked out. That's the story this week. Amazon blocked Meta's new Muse agent from checking out on Amazon.com, defending the same perimeter it's been fighting Perplexity over[...]
Your checkout page just got a new competitor: an AI agent. That's the story this week. Amazon turned ChatGPT into an ad channel, letting DSP advertisers buy placements right inside the chat. And Meta's new WhatsApp agent, Muse, can[...]
Amazon just raised the cost of doing business for a chunk of sellers: a new commercial liability insurance mandatelands this November, and it catches more categories, and more low-volume sellers, than most people realize. Zoom out,[...]
Anthropic just handed retailers a blueprint for AI shopping agents — and buried in the fine print is an uncomfortable truth for anyone selling primarily on Amazon: you don't own the storefront the agent would run on. Meanwhile, retail[...]
The FTC and 22 state AGs just sued Amazon, alleging it secretly overcharged advertisers more than $20 billion by manipulating its Sponsored Products auction — a hidden "soft reserve price" that inflated what sellers paid for years[...]
Amazon quietly rewrote its Conditions of Use this weekend, reinstating mandatory arbitration and banning class-action lawsuits for U.S. customers — a reversal of the more litigant-friendly terms it had run since 2021. Meanwhile, TikTok[...]
Amazon just quietly shelved most of its flagship AI models — the ones running behind Rufus and its AI seller tools — to focus resources on one model built to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Meanwhile, ChatGPT turned brand[...]
Amazon just started auto-translating the text inside your product images across 14 stores — no opt-in, no notice, already live. Meanwhile, a new federal bill just landed in Congress that would force Amazon, Walmart, and other[...]
Amazon just auto-enrolled every active Sponsored Products campaign into ads running inside Amazon Influencer creator content — no opt-in, no notice you had to act on. Meanwhile, eBay posted a blowout Q2 right after buying Depop from Etsy[...]
Amazon just posted its first-ever $200 billion quarter — and its ad business alone brought in $19.8 billion. Meanwhile, TikTok is quietly testing a Prime-style membership that could change how sellers think about a channel they've[...]
Amazon just locked in its 2026 holiday fee schedule—and quietly squeezed the calendar sellers have to work with. Meanwhile, a new bill in Congress wants to force marketplaces to show their work before freezing your money or your[...]
Two marketplaces just moved to lock in the sellers already on their platforms—and Amazon quietly tightened a rule that touches your listing photos. Meta launched a dedicated app for Facebook Marketplace sellers, and TikTok Shop is[...]
Amazon's Alexa for Shopping just recommended thousands of products that don't rank, aren't sponsored, and don't even show up on the search results page—and it's happening on 4 out of every 10 queries. Meanwhile, the shoppers who[...]
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