There was a different agenda at a weekly operations meeting recently: the fact that Amazon.com hasn't been working as smoothly.

California Judge Maxine Chesney has ruled that AI agent need platform permission to access systems, even when operating on your behalf

Amazon repurposed its regular weekly retail technology meeting Tuesday to figure out why its retail website keeps breaking. The answer, buried in internal documents and then quickly deleted, according to the Financial Times: its own AI initiatives.

By gatekeeping the "buy" button, Amazon ensures that the only AI allowed to help you shop is the one optimized for their ad revenue.