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Amazon Drops Data Center NDAs, and AI Agents Want Your Credit Card

Amazon says it no longer signs nondisclosure agreements with the government agencies it works with on data centers, and has pledged more than $1 billion over five years through Built Together. We set out the timeline from Microsoft’s March pledge to Jamie Raskin’s letters, the four gaps in Amazon’s wording (contractors, shell companies, old agreements, private parties), how its water, power and pollution claims hold up, and why AI agents asking for your credit card face the same trust problem.

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Google Tests Buying From Walmart-Owned Flipkart Through Gemini and AI Mode in India

Google is testing a Buy button that opens a Flipkart checkout inside Gemini and AI Mode for some shoppers in India, on smartphones, electronics and accessories, with a wider rollout planned for later in October. We set out what is confirmed, why the Flipkart-branded flow differs from Google’s own UCP checkout, where Amazon, OpenAI and UPI fit in, and what the test means for shoppers and sellers before the festive sales.

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Amazon Bars Meta’s Muse AI From Shopping on Its Site

Amazon has cut Meta’s twelve-day-old Muse agent off from shopping on Amazon.com, serving users a popup that cites its Conditions of Use rather than accusing anyone of hacking. That wording is deliberate: on 4 August 2026 the Ninth Circuit ruled in the Perplexity Comet case that the user, not the AI company, is the party accessing a retailer’s computers, and denied rehearing on 10 September. This article covers Amazon’s stated objections, how Muse actually reaches a site with no agent API, the litigation timeline, the $68 billion advertising business at stake, and how Amazon’s own Buy for Me feature differs.

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PSA: Amazon’s Shopping AI Can Now Tell You if That Message Is a Scam

Amazon’s AI shopping assistant just gained a scam checker. Ask Alexa for Shopping whether an email, text or phone call really came from Amazon and it checks the message against billions of records, returning a verdict in seconds. With 360,000 customers a year asking Amazon “is this real?” and the FTC reporting a record $3.5 billion lost to imposter scams in 2025, this article unpacks how the verification feature works, the scams it targets, how to use it, and what it means for shoppers and businesses.

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Twitch and Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers’ Content

Eight days after Twitch switched on AI training by default, a Connecticut streamer filed a class action against Twitch and Amazon in the Northern District of California. The complaint accuses both companies of harvesting broadcasts, videos, clips and chat logs to train Amazon’s generative AI since as far back as 2024 — without consent and without payment. This article breaks the case down in plain language: the four legal claims and why copyright is deliberately missing, Mike Minton’s “nobody would opt in” admission, the same-day terms change, the market price of licensed training data, how the case compares with Bartz, Kadrey and NYT v. OpenAI, and the lessons for any business repurposing user content for AI.

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