US EditionAmazon wins order blocking access for Perplexity's AI shopping 'agent'
A federal judge ruled that Perplexity’s Comet AI browser accessed Amazon user accounts without authorization, risking security and ad revenue, ordering data deletion during ongoing litigation.
- A California federal judge granted Amazon a temporary injunction against Perplexity AI, blocking their AI 'agent' tool from accessing Amazon user accounts without permission.
- Amazon argued that Perplexity's tool posed security risks for customer data and generated invalid ad traffic that had to be filtered out.
- The judge found 'strong evidence' that Perplexity's Comet browser accessed Amazon 'without authorization', and that Amazon incurred significant costs to block and detect the unauthorized access.
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Amazon Wins Court Order to Block Perplexity AI Shopping Bots
E-commerce goliath Amazon scored a temporary victory in its attempt to secure a court order blocking artificial intelligence (AI) robot agents from accessing its website. According to court documents, Amazon’s dispute with Perplexity, a San Francisco-based private AI firm, involved the alleged unauthorized use of Perplexity’s Comet web browsers’ AI function to access password-protected sections of Amazon. The March 6 ruling from the U.S. Distric…
Amazon wins order blocking access for Perplexity's AI shopping 'agent'
A California federal judge has granted Amazon's request for a court order that temporarily blocks Perplexity AI from using its artificial-intelligence-powered "agentic" shopping tool on the e-commerce giant's platform.
Federal judge blocks Perplexity’s AI browser from making Amazon purchases
A federal judge has blocked Perplexity, makers of the Comet AI browser, from accessing user Amazon accounts and making purchases on their behalf. In an March 9 order, Judge Maxine Chesney of the Northern District Court of California said the temporary injunction reflects the likelihood that Amazon “will succeed on the merits” of its claim that Perplexity’s AI agents violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Comprehensive Computer Data Acc…
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