Right now, if you want, you can download a web browser called Comet, made by AI search company Perplexity , and tell it to shop for you. You might type, for example, “buy me [a specific earbud] on Amazon,” after which it will open a tab, navigate to Amazon.com, enter your search in the box, and attempt to find and click the buttons necessary to add it to your cart. (A browser from OpenAI , Atlas, will do the same thing, as will a few others.) Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and it’s not clear why many people would want to use such a feature now, in its current state. But it’s a pretty good demonstration of new AI capabilities as well as a statement of intent: AI companies, using “agents,” want to try to do more things on behalf of their users — research, shopping, work — an

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