US Senators Urge FTC Probe of Amazon and Walmart AI Chatbots Over 'Made in USA' Label Suppression

What happened

US Senators Tammy Baldwin and Rick Scott have called for a Federal Trade Commission investigation into Amazon's Alexa for Shopping and Walmart's Sparky AI chatbots. Studies found these AI assistants suppress information about US-made products and fail to flag fraudulent 'Made in USA' claims, potentially misleading consumers and harming American manufacturing.

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