沃尔玛推出 AI 代理购物工具 Agent Profiles，允许授权 AI 助手在客户设定额度内代下单

Walmart ( WMT ) announced new tools that let AI agents shop and complete purchases for customers. The move is an effort to get ahead of the growing trend of people using AI assistants to shop online. CEO John Furner made the AI agent announcement at the Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco. Agent Profiles will launch within the next month. Each AI agent a customer uses gets a unique profile inside the customer's account, so its purchases show up separately from the customer's own. Customers can choose to approve every purchase themselves or let the agent buy on its own up to a spending limit they set, such as $50, $10000, or $200. The setup is similar to adding an extra user to a credit card account. Customers can delete a profile at any time, and they don't need a Walmart+ membership to use the AI agent service. Under Walmart's ( WMT ) terms, agents can't do more than the shopper intends, can't see payment card details, and can't add or change payment methods. Agents that break the rules can be blocked. Agents also see the same prices as human shoppers, and Walmart's ( WMT ) normal return policy applies. "These tools will let customers shop with Walmart and Sam’s Club through the apps and agents they choose, with clear permissions, controls, and protections built in," updated the company. The announcement sets Walmart ( WMT ) apart from Amazon ( AMZN ), which blocks outside AI agents from shopping on its site. Shares of Walmart ( WMT ) were up 1.1% in premarket action. Amazon ( AMZN ) was down 1.7%.