Amazon’s new AI agent is designed to do your shopping

Amazon has launched a new AI model, Nova Act, which is designed to perform tasks — like online shopping — in your browser. For now it’s only available to developers in a “research preview,” but Amazon is also expanding access to its other Nova AI models through a web portal, making them easier to find and use. Nova Act is a new model whose function sounds similar to OpenAI’s Operator agent. Amazon says Act can carry out web searches, make purchases, or answer questions about what’s on the screen, including the option to perform tasks on a schedule. It can also recognize more detailed instructions — such as telling it “don’t accept the insurance upsell” while making a purchase. Act is currently only accessible to developers, but Amazon says it’s already being put to use carrying out some online tasks in the upgraded Alexa Plus assistant. Act is the first product to be released by Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Labs, which says its “dream” is for agents to “perform wide ... Read full article.