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...