@elonmusk: Seriously
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Elon Musk quote-tweeted Paul Graham's post arguing that Amazon's decision to ban AI shopping agents creates a rare opportunity for a startup to build an Amazon competitor powered by autonomous purchasing agents.
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Seriously
Paul Graham (@paulg): Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I’ve seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will want agents to buy stuff for them. It will be one of the main use cases. And they won’t want to use some Amazon-supplied agent to do it.
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