the websites are fighting the shopping bots

AI agents like Muse and Dots can book flights and order groceries for you now — but the sites keep slamming the door. amazon blocks Muse on purpose; walmart blocks it by accident with its "click to prove you're human" check, even though walmart's actually a Muse partner. so Meta, Walmart, Stripe and Sierra are now building an open standard to tell good bots from bad — because the human checkbox was never made for a web where the shopper is a robot.