Amazon has scrapped its Rufus AI chatbot in favor of a new agentic AI solution in the form of Alexa for Shopping. Alexa for Shopping blends the former Rufus and Alexa+ to create a new integration which can make product recommendations from user history and past purchases (more).

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen seems unwilling to take eBay’s rejection of his company’s takeover bid without pursuing the matter further. “They [eBay’s board] have a job to do their best for shareholders and engage on this and if they don’t then we’ll do whatever we need to do,” he said in a recent interview (more).

Kevin Warsh was confirmed as the next chair of the Federal Reserve in a vote which was largely drawn along partisan lines. Outgoing chair Jerome Powell will retain a seat as governor for now, with Warsh’s first meeting at the helm scheduled for mid-June (more).

Honda delivered its first-ever annual loss in nearly 70 years, delivering its worst financial report since being listed on the stock market in 1957. The losses were largely tied to a $9 billion restructuring effort aimed at pulling back from the EV market (more).

Based on survey results, ChatGPT is the most frequently used shopping tool with U.S. consumers, with 72% having used the LLM to do so. Gemini took the No. 2 spot (at 58%), while 81% of shoppers had used at least one tool more broadly (more).