Amazon wants Alexa for Shopping, not Muse, to be how people shop its store
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Amazon is signaling it will defend checkout and product discovery as a first-party surface, not something ceded to external agents. If you’re building commerce agents, assume tighter integration paths with Amazon’s own assistant and weaker support for third-party intermediaries.
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