Perplexity Achieves Major Legal Victory Over Amazon

The Ninth Circuit dissolved a preliminary injunction that had prevented Perplexity’s Comet AI shopping assistant from accessing Amazon’s storefront, concluding that user-directed AI actions do not constitute unauthorized access under the CFAA; the ruling allows Comet to resume price comparisons and purchases while the underlying lawsuit proceeds, and the report outlines the case timeline, Amazon’s allegations of scraping and evasion, and broader legal implications for agentic AI.