Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI.
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Key points
- OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes.
- But what happens when the rest of the internet won't play nice?
- In recent weeks, users of services like Meta's Muse, xAI's Grok, OpenAI's Dots, and Instinct have reported blocks preventing their AI agents from performing tasks across top websites.
- Yelp told TechCrunch that it only allows AI agents that pay for its data licensing program, while Delta Air Lines is preventing them from booking ticket ...
Sources (2)
- [1]Websites are closing their doors to AI agentsThe Verge: AI · Oct 17, 01:00 PM
Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI.
OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes.
- [2]Websites are closing their doors to AI agentsHacker News (AI, 100+ points) · Oct 18, 02:58 PM · same content
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- Oct 14, 2026Grok Voice 3.0 from SpaceXSI outscores OpenAI and Google on speech-to-speech index
