Amazon Wins A Temporary Injunction Against Perplexity's Comet Browser

Amazon has secured a impermanent triumph successful its conflict pinch Perplexity complete nan usage of AI shopping bots. Bloomberg reported that a San Francisco national tribunal has wished that Perplexity must extremity utilizing its Comet web browser's AI supplier to make purchases for users connected Amazon's marketplace. The AI institution will person a week to entreaty nan decision, different it has been ordered to extremity accessing immoderate password-protected areas of Amazon's systems and destruct its copies of Amazon's information while nan 2 companies proceed to reason their cases.

"Amazon has provided beardown grounds that Perplexity, done its Comet browser, accesses pinch nan Amazon user's support but without authorization by Amazon, nan user's password-protected account," District Judge Maxine Chesney wrote successful placing nan impermanent block.

"The preliminary injunction will forestall Perplexity’s unauthorized entree to nan Amazon shop and is an important measurement successful maintaining a trusted shopping acquisition for Amazon customers," an Amazon spokesperson told Bloomberg.

Amazon sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity complete nan AI company's shopping bots successful November. According to Amazon, usage of nan Comet supplier to make purchases is simply a usurpation of its position of service. "Perplexity will proceed to conflict for nan correct of net users to take immoderate AI they want," a typical from Perplexity said of this week's decision.