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Mastercard predicts that over the next four years one-in-ten will use AI agents for online shopping

More than one in ten online shoppers are expected to routinely use AI agents to purchase products on their behalf by 2030, according to a new Mastercard report

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GPT-6 Astra scores 95% on one robot task, 10% on another

Robocurve has run OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 against physical robot arms, and the results split sharply by task. Astra completed the easy task 19 times out of 20.

  • GPT-6 Astra achieved 95% success on one robot task
  • Claude Fable 5.1 scored 40% on the same easy task
  • Both models cost $2.12 per run for the puzzle task

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