Amazon loses US court ban on Perplexity's AI shopping tools

Aug 4 : A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using ​its AI-powered agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform.In a novel legal dispute, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Amazon was unlikely to succeed on its claim that Perplexity's AI agents violated a federal computer-hacking law.The ruling is the first by a federal appeals court to address whether AI agents acting on behalf of users can legally access online platforms, a question with broad implications for the fast-growing field of agentic AI tools that can browse, shop and transact across the web.Spokespeople for Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision. "Perplexity will continue to fight for the right