Amazon vs Perplexity + Sora hits Android

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Turns out Amazon doesn't appreciate AI agents that shop incognito, while OpenAI is making it easier to generate videos on the go.

The e-commerce giant is sending legal threats to Perplexity over its agentic browsing feature, demanding bots identify themselves properly. Meanwhile, Sora has officially landed on Android, bringing AI video generation to mobile users after its iOS debut.

Well, well, well—looks like the AI agent party is hitting its first real bouncer. Amazon just sent legal threats to Perplexity over their new agentic browsing feature, and honestly? I kinda see both sides here.

Amazon's beef is simple: if you're gonna send bots to crawl our site and pretend to be human shoppers, at least have the decency to identify yourself. You know, like every other well-behaved crawler has done since the dawn of robots.txt. Perplexity's counter? They're big mad, claiming this stifles innovation in the AI agent space. Classic "move fast and break things" energy meeting "we actually have a business to protect" reality.

Every major site is going to have to decide: do we let AI agents scrape our data to help users shop/browse/whatever, or do we lock it down? Yeah, lawyers are getting involved.

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The founders who ship something—anything—every single week are lapping those who wait for "perfect." Not better products. Not more funding. Just consistent, visible momentum. Wild how the scoreboard changes when you stop optimizing and start showing up.

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P.S. If you've been "almost done" with something for more than two weeks, it's not almost done—it's a pet project.