Appeals court temporarily pauses order blocking Perplexity’s AI shopping agent on Amazon

A federal appeals court temporarily stayed a lower-court injunction that had barred Perplexity AI’s Comet browser/agent from accessing Amazon customer accounts; Amazon alleges the agent accessed password-protected account areas without Amazon’s authorization and disguised automated actions as human browsing, while Perplexity argues users authorized the agent to act on their behalf—raising legal questions about agentic AI, platform authorization, and whether such automated representatives must follow platform rules.