Websites block consumer AI agents as agentic traffic rises
Meta's Muse was downloaded 5 million times in its first month, and agentic web traffic tripled from August to September.
Meta's Muse was downloaded 5 million times in its first month, and agentic web traffic tripled from August to September.
September Link transactions rose 38-fold and volume 20-fold from a small base, with about 200 agents now.
A consumer ranking names Wix and Shopify the best-protected hosted website builders for 2027.
Shopify launched Canvas so merchants can build live stores by chatting with its Sidekick AI.
Shopify now lets browser-based AI agents complete checkout, including Shop Pay, on eligible merchant stores.
Shopify CEO warns that lazy use of AI tools creates 'slop grenades' that burden colleagues with cleanup work.
Three Hacktron researchers used Claude Opus to breach OpenAI employee accounts through a Discourse HEIF flaw, reaching the Monorepo within 72 hours.
AI data center startup Nscale appointed former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo to its board ahead of a planned fall IPO and reported $3.5 billion raise.
Shopify is dropping React Native for separate Swift and Kotlin native apps, saying AI agents now handle cross-platform implementation work.
Meta launched Muse, a consumer AI agent powered by Muse Spark that connects to users' apps to execute tasks like emailing, booking travel, and payments.
A fake refund scam has targeted Shopify Shop app users for several months, with fraudsters impersonating refunds directly inside the app.
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