The Arena
Websites block AI agents: JPMorgan, Schwab shut them out
The web's uninvited guest is getting harder to miss — and this week the doors closed on the banking side too. What started as a handful of retailers turning away shopping agents has spread into a general posture: if you hold customer accounts or sell access to content, the default answer to an AI agent is no. JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab have confirmed they block AI agents from accessing customer accounts, and The Verge's tally this week puts that pair at the head of a list that now…