Tech 24 - September 22, 2026
Amazon locks out Meta's shopping agent, AMD joins the trillion-dollar club, and Alibaba answers Nvidia with its own chip.
Good morning. Here's what happened in tech over the last 24 hours.
Amazon Locked Meta's Shopping Agent Out Of Its Store
Amazon started blocking Meta's Muse agent from Amazon.com on Sunday night, twelve days after the app launched. Shoppers who try it now get a pop-up saying an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's terms of use.
Amazon's complaint has three parts. Meta never told it Muse would be shopping the site. The agent doesn't identify itself when it browses. And it appears to capture and store customer credentials. Meta says Muse cannot see passwords or payment methods, and that credentials go into secure storage the agent uses without reading.
Muse is not a side experiment. It passed ChatGPT as the top free iPhone app and has cleared 2.5 million downloads since September 8. Claude and Grok managed 400,000 and 200,000 over the same stretch. The agent era just hit its first border dispute, and it's about who gets to shop.
Source: TechCrunch
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OpenAI Says Its Model Cracked More Than 100 Open Math Problems
OpenAI set up an independent math advisory group, hosted at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, after an internal model reportedly resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems.
The list reportedly includes work on Navier-Stokes, one of the seven Millennium Prize problems. Those carry a million-dollar bounty and have stood unsolved for decades.
Mathematicians need months to check claims like these, which is presumably why the group exists. If even a fraction survives review, the argument that AI can't do original research is over.
Source: TechCrunch
Ireland Fined Google €403 Million Over Location Data
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google €403 million yesterday, about $463 million. The case covers Web & App Activity, Location History and Location Accuracy.
The inquiry ran six years and examined conduct between May 2018 and February 2020. It is the fourth-largest fine the Irish regulator has issued under GDPR.
Google has six months to bring its location processing into line. The money is a rounding error for Alphabet. The compliance order is the part that costs.
Source: BleepingComputer
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