AI digest: agents everywhere
Meta buys an AI social network, Amazon blocks Perplexity's shopping bot, and everyone's building meta-agents that build other agents.
The week’s big theme is agents talking to agents, building agents, and companies fighting over who gets to deploy them where.
Meta acquires Moltbook, the Reddit for AI agents
Meta bought Moltbook, a platform where AI agents post and interact with each other instead of humans. The company went viral earlier for its eerily realistic fake posts created entirely by bots. Meta says they’re interested in Moltbook’s “always-on directory” approach to connecting agents, which suggests they’re planning something bigger than just their current AI characters feature.
Amazon blocks Perplexity’s shopping agent with court order
Amazon got a court injunction stopping Perplexity’s AI from crawling their site to help users shop. This feels like the opening shot in what’s going to be a massive battle over AI agents accessing e-commerce platforms. Every retailer will need to decide whether helpful shopping bots are worth the lost control over the customer relationship.
Tutorial shows how to build agents that build other agents
MarkTechPost published a detailed guide on creating meta-agents that automatically design and deploy task-specific AI agents from simple descriptions. The system analyses requirements, selects tools, chooses memory architectures, and spins up working agents. We’re getting close to the point where the main job of programmers might be teaching agents how to program other agents.
Nvidia partners with Mira Murati’s new lab
Nvidia announced a long-term partnership with Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati. The deal includes at least a gigawatt of compute power and a strategic investment. Interesting to see where Murati lands after leaving OpenAI, especially with this level of backing from Nvidia.