Amazon drops NDA for data centers; AI agents want your credit card

Amazon announced it will no longer use non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move by Microsoft earlier this year. Community opposition to such secrecy practices has led to hundreds of proposed and enacted bans from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a group of startups is betting that consumers are willing to let AI agents access their inboxes, files, and credit cards, provided websites allow it.