{
  "id": 19078716,
  "title": "Artificial Shoppers and Attention Competition",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/artificial-shoppers-and-attention-competition",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-06T12:34:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09399v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "We study how AI shopping interfaces affect price competition, platform profit, and consumer welfare. A platform hosts two of three products of different quality. Without AI, consumers compare the hosted pair under salience distortion and overweight whichever attribute, price or quality, stands out. Under assistance, an AI assistant recommends the two products with the highest true utility,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}