Amazon sues Perplexity over ‘agentic’ shopping tool
REUTERS
In the suit, Amazon accused Perplexity of covertly accessing private Amazon customer accounts through its Comet browser and associated AI agent, and of disguising automated activity as human browsing.
Perplexity’s system posed security risks to customer data, Amazon added, and the startup had ignored repeated requests to stop.
“Rather than be transparent, Perplexity has purposely configured its CometAI software to not identify the Comet AI agent’s activities in the Amazon Store,” it said.
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