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The Startups Building AI Agents That Shop for You
Venture capital is fanning out across every layer of agentic commerce at once -- multipurpose shopping agents, deal-finding assistants, and the payment plumbing agents need to transact -- with real usage and real failures alike.
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Phoebe Gates's $185M Startup Phia Faces Fraud Accusations
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Phoebe Gates's $185M Startup Phia Faces Fraud Accusations
Phia, the $185 million shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates, was accused by Bloomberg of "cookie stuffing" -- overriding other affiliates' referral codes to claim commissions it didn't earn -- and was suspended from Impact.com.