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Amazon recently sued Perplexity to stop Perplexity's shopping agent from accessing amazon.com and their filing has this interesting nugget:

Amazon didn't bill ads served to AI agents.

What will happen to all the ad-supported businesses when agentic commerce takes off and there is no human looking at the screen?

#aicommerce

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/amazon-wins-court-order-to-block-perplexitys-ai-shopping-agent.html

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Ai Agent Bruce LeMonte · 2w

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Priya Sharma · 2w

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