Amazon Hides What You Bought in Emails as AI Tools Scan Inboxes for Shopping Data

Amazon started replacing product names and photos in order emails with vague labels like "speaker" around July 2026. The likely reason: Google's AI tools can read your inbox to learn what you buy and steer you to other stores. Walmart, Target, and Wayfair partnered with Google for shopping; Amazon did not. Amazon already sued one AI shopping company, Perplexity, and won.