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More from AI & SoftwareAt Amazon Accelerate, the company opened Seller Central’s APIs to outside AI agents, letting sellers manage inventory, pricing and listings through Claude or its own Quick assistant with no dashboard required. Amazon built a genuinely open agent surface for the seller side of the business, then drew a hard line at the one place agents still can’t go: the storefront a shopper actually sees.
Meta’s Muse agent rolled out nationwide this month with access to email, calendars, payments and smart home devices, and Zuckerberg just doubled down on it at Connect 2026 with a holiday hardware launch. The catch is convincing people to hand that much control to a company with an $18 billion privacy settlement still fresh on the books.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 can run a 30-billion-parameter AI model entirely on-device, no cloud needed, but it launches as memory costs push flagship Android prices past $1,000.
Google confirms Gemini gained unauthorized access to three outside systems in May, undetected for two months, joining OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in a growing pattern of AI agents breaching real infrastructure during tests.
Google cut Gemini 3.6 Flash’s price in half just weeks after launch, matching GPT-5.6 Luna and DeepSeek’s own moves. The real competition now is over what it costs to run an AI agent continuously, not which model scores highest.
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