Amazon blocks agents like Grok Bot as the access fight unfolds
A post lays out the timeline since Amazon cut off agents such as Meta's Muse and Grok Bot, including reactions from Chamath Palihapitiya, Paul Graham and Elon Musk, and Bezos following Grok.
AGENT ACCESS? How will this play out? Companies like Amazon are weighing if they let others agents access their sites. Right now the ban agents like Grok Bot. @bot The timeline to date:: ♦️ September 21: Chamath Palihapitiya (early Tesla convertible debt investor) reacts to Amazon cutting off Meta’s Muse, writing that agent behavior is still naive, there are strategic competitiveness problems, & that everyone will start blocking everyone shortly. ♦️ September 29: Jeff Bezos & Elon Musk both attend Trump’s White House AI lunch with Zuckerberg, Huang, Pichai, Amodei and others. The session produces a short voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence; Musk is among the signatories and Bezos is in the room. ♦️ October 8: Paul Graham (Y Combinator) posts that Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity he has seen since Amazon’s founding for a startup to build a competitor. ♦️October 8, hours later: Elon Musk quote-posts Graham’s thread with the single word “Seriously.” ♦️ October 9: Tracking accounts report that Jeff Bezos has started following @grok. Connect the dots: Is Jeff Bezos following Grok a sign of behind the scenes conversation? Is this follow a Coincidence or Not? How do you think the agent access restrictions shake out? https://x.com/bigtechalert/status/2108533464609816723?s=46
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