Amazon Blocked Meta's AI Shopping Agent. Shopify Welcomed It -- and Gets Paid on Every Checkout.

Key Points Amazon began blocking Meta's Muse agent from shopping on its site Sunday night, citing its conditions of use. Shopify's president says agent-driven orders carry the same economics as ordinary online store orders. The two-day rally lifted the stock's forward price-to-earnings ratio from about 52 to about 60. These 10 stocks could mint the next wave of millionaires › On Sunday night, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) began blocking Muse, the two-week-old personal artificial intelligence (AI) agent from Meta Platforms , from shopping on its site. Ask Muse to buy something on Amazon now, and a message says access by "an unauthorized AI agent" violates the site's conditions of use. One day later, Shopify (NASDAQ:SHOP) went the other way.