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What Is Your AI Agent Buying? Evaluation, Biases, Model Dependence, & Emerging Implications for Agentic E-Commerce

Amine Allouah, Omar Besbes, Josué D Figueroa, Yash Kanoria and Akshit Kumar

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Research preprint
Publication
Columbia / MyCustomAI / Yale
Version used
arXiv:2508.02630v3
Source date
17 December 2025
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23 October 2026
License
CC BY 4.0; paraphrased and linked.

arXiv version date; the manuscript labels its revision 15 December 2025. Academic and commercial affiliations; simulator evidence, not observed retail market shares. No separate validity period has been established for the finding.

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Why an agent chooses your company

Sections 2, 5 and 7.2: simulator; choice behavior; headless interfaces

Randomized product-grid experiments and text-only variants. Fixed exposure is distinct from the commercial value of gaining exposure.

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Supports this claim:Models do not share one stable shopping preference