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Hosted browser agents arrive

From the Machine Economy Archive · event 2025-01-28 · zFinia 2026-09-07 · TIER_C

OpenAI’s Operator put a computer-use agent in a product wrapper. Merchants faced a choice: deterministic machine checkout, or DOM automation against human pages.

Why it matters

Watch merchant APIs and later ACP — not screenshots of agents shopping.

Source: zFinia retrospective synthesis

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