Amazon Brings Down the Hammer on Meta’s Muse AI Agent
THE SO WHAT
Platform-to-platform blocks framed as privacy and security are the new API rate limits. If your agent strategy depends on scraping or transacting through third-party retail giants, assume revocability and design for graceful degradation and channel diversification.
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