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AI agents are deciding who captures the value. Shoppers, workers and voters should have a say

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AI agents are deciding who captures the value. Shoppers, workers and voters should have a say
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Ask an AI assistant to buy you a coffee machine on Amazon and you have stepped into one of the first legal fights over agentic commerce. Perplexity’s Comet browser can browse the store and place the order for its user. Amazon sued, arguing that the agent entered its store without authorization while disguised as an ordinary Chrome browser, and a federal judge in San Francisco blocked it. On Aug. 4, the Ninth Circuit vacated that order. Because the agent acts only when its user tells it to, the c

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