Judges Let Perplexity AI Shopping Bots Stay on Amazon for Now

Perplexity AI Inc. won a reprieve from a court order that would have banned its Comet shopping bots from Amazon.com Inc. this week.

The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted a bid from the artificial intelligence startup to pause a lower court order from taking effect on Tuesday. That order will remain on hold while the federal appeals court considers Perplexity’s appeal.

Amazon sued Perplexity in November, accusing the startup of committing computer fraud by failing to disclose when Comet is shopping on a real person’s behalf, and refusing to stop when asked by Amazon.

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