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Walmart and Anthropic launch AI shopping tools

Walmart is introducing tools that let artificial intelligence agents shop on customers’ behalf, as Anthropic rolls out a similar effort. Walmart says the setup works like adding an authorised user to a credit card, giving an agent permission to act.
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