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Etsy

Etsy is an online marketplace for handmade goods, vintage items, and craft supplies from independent sellers worldwide.

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  • ETSY

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leadershipOne report1 publisher

Rendering price in JavaScript keeps a product out of ChatGPT's shopping answers

An ecommerce audit consultant writing in Entrepreneur says most AI crawlers read only a page's initial HTML, so a product page that ranks in Google can return nothing to an assistant fielding around 50 million shopping queries a day.

Publishers:entrepreneur.com

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption33
Hype gap+38
Incentives72
Confidence45
investOne report1 publisher

Amazon blocks the two OpenAI crawlers behind 50 million daily shopping queries

New disallow rules for ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot went into Amazon's robots.txt without an announcement. Amazon earns roughly $56 billion a year from advertising that bills only while shoppers are on its own pages.

Publishers:digiday.com

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption58
Hype gap+22
Incentives74
Confidence66
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Google's AP2 replaces the buy click with a cryptographically signed mandate

Google's Agent Payments Protocol makes an agent's authority to pay a cryptographically signed mandate holding price limits, timing and other conditions. Whoever drafts those conditions is setting spend policy.

Publishers:cloud.google.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives80
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

Meta's internal agent gets its own computer to run errands across the open web

An employee memo described by BI puts Meta into agentic commerce with a subscription price attached, and before any merchant can price a delegated buyer at checkout, it first has to figure out how to spot one.

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption10
Hype gap+42
Incentives66
Confidence33
investOne report1 publisher

Mamdani fills 15 council seats without a sitting executive from JPMorgan, BlackRock or Meta

The Business Advisory Council meets four times a year and advises rather than approves, which makes the seat cheap to take and cheap to skip, and the biggest balance sheets in the city took the second option.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption38
Hype gap+24
Incentives62
Confidence61