Amazon loses injunction blocking Perplexity's AI shopping agent

A federal appeals court vacated the preliminary injunction that barred Perplexity AI's Comet browser assistant from accessing Amazon shopping accounts, ruling that under US law the user, not the AI agent developer, is considered to access the retailer's computers. This limits Amazon's ability to use federal or California hacking statutes to block AI tools that operate on the user's device but allows Amazon to enforce its own terms of service.

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