Major sites block personal AI agents, threatening their promise

Major banking, retail and travel sites are blocking personal AI agents from acting for users: Amazon kicked Meta's Muse off its platform, Delta blocks agent flight bookings, and JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citigroup lock bots out of accounts. Security, ad-revenue protection and anti-bot systems like Cloudflare are cited.

• Amazon blocked Meta's Muse AI agent on its retail platform
• Delta and banks JPMorgan, BofA and Citi bar agents from accounts
• Apollo: auto-sweeping idle cash could cost banks tens of billions
• Cloudflare CAPTCHA shields routinely break agent checkouts