Amazon wins a short lived injunction in opposition to Perplexity’s Comet browser

Amazon has secured a short lived win in its struggle with Perplexity over the usage of AI purchasing bots. Bloomberg reported {that a} San Francisco federal court docket has decided that Perplexity should cease utilizing its Comet internet browser’s AI agent to make purchases for customers on Amazon’s market. The AI firm may have per week to attraction the choice, in any other case it has been ordered to cease accessing any password-protected areas of Amazon’s techniques and destroy its copies of Amazon’s knowledge whereas the 2 firms proceed to argue their instances.

“Amazon has supplied sturdy proof that Perplexity, by way of its Comet browser, accesses with the Amazon person’s permission however with out authorization by Amazon, the person’s password-protected account,” District Choose Maxine Chesney wrote in inserting the momentary block.

“The preliminary injunction will stop Perplexity’s unauthorized entry to the Amazon retailer and is a vital step in sustaining a trusted purchasing expertise for Amazon clients,” an Amazon spokesperson advised Bloomberg.

Amazon despatched a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity over the AI firm’s purchasing bots in November. In response to Amazon, use of the Comet agent to make purchases is a violation of its phrases of service. “Perplexity will proceed to struggle for the precise of web customers to decide on no matter AI they need,” a consultant from Perplexity mentioned of this week’s determination.