Platform Access, Ecosystem Control & Antitrust Expansion

WP Engine's antitrust claims against Automattic and WooCommerce survived dismissal, keeping allegations involving trademark licensing demands and platform-access pressure alive at the pleading stage. A separate, weakly sourced report that Amazon blocked Meta's Muse AI agent raises a related but unconfirmed question about platform control over agent credentials, data, retail search, and advertising access; it remains unverified.