Industry
Traffic from AI shopping agents grew 100 times in 45 days
Morning Consult data shows 28% of US adults use shopping assistants regularly. Many do not want AI to buy for them.
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Amazon
85 stories carry this tag.
Devices
New AI wearables that always listen test the limits of privacy law
Some devices make text from voice without a record of the audio. It is not clear if this is lawful interception.
Policy
Amazon tool scores warehouses on union risk, documents show
Amazon says the tool works at site level only and is not in use in the UK at this time.
opendemocracy.netClaimed, not confirmed
Deals
Amazon gets DuckLabs, the maker of the DuckDB database
DuckDB and its tools stay free and open source in the MIT license.
Industry
An X user says Amazon stops Grok Bot purchases
Amazon does not say that the stop is correct, but Musk says SpaceX will repay a user for errors.
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Security
Proof launched x401, an open protocol for AI agent authorization
If a term of the transaction is different from the signed term, the signature is not correct.
Industry
Amazon stops the Muse agent of Meta and JPMorgan stops external agents
A website cannot know which user an agent works for or if that user let it make the payment.
Security
The Aoki malware gets credentials of AI tools for code
A token that an attacker gets gives the identity and the API quota of the developer.
Compute
Entergy told Amazon it will remove its data centers from the grid
The Information reports that Amazon made Project Falcon, and the utility can put the data centers on backup power without contact with AWS.
Agents
2 AWS engineers say hooks stop an AI agent with a fault
Hooks are deterministic Python code in the agent loop, and the engineers do not try to control the agent from the external side.
Security
One prompt could get access to all AgentCore agents in one AWS account
Zenity says that AWS removed the wide permissions. AWS says that access of an agent to its execution role credentials is expected.
CyberSecurityNewsClaimed, not confirmed
Industry
Carriers and Amazon stop the Meta AI agent Muse
Many carriers identify the calls of Muse and stop them before a human agent gets them.