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One statement, bounded on purpose

The headline is a single claim that a named source supports. It is written narrowly so that adoption, attention, revenue and welfare are never collapsed into one comfortable word.

The three sections below the fold

What this does not establish is the boundary of the evidence. Counterevidence & uncertainty is what argues the other way. What would change the reading is the observation that would move it. A record missing any of the three is incomplete, not merely brief.

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MWITA-AGC-2026-006 · Evidence B · P1

In simulated two-sided agent markets, response speed created a much larger selection advantage than service quality.

D07 · Commerce, Productization & Marketplaces D10 · Qube, Agent Products & Autonomous Work D11 · AI Models, Agents & Human–AI Interaction D13 · Software Platforms, Cloud & Integration D19 · Measurement, Experimentation & Economics

What this does not establish

Synthetic restaurant and home-service transactions are not production market welfare, merchant revenue or payment reliability.

Counterevidence & uncertainty

Near-optimal welfare appeared only under ideal search; real-market search and strategy remain unmeasured.

What would change the reading

Track replication, revised versions, denominators, confidence intervals, platform changes and deployed commercial outcomes.

Primary routes

AGC-S006https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25779Open source record →

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