Amazon Wins Court Order Blocking Perplexity’s AI Shopping Bots

Perplexity AI Inc. must for now stop using its Comet web browser agent to make purchases on behalf of shoppers from Amazon.com Inc.’s online marketplace, a court ruled this week.

Amazon in November filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence startup accusing Perplexity 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.

The ruling, dated Monday, is a temporary order in place while both sides argue the legality of using tools designed by one company — more commonly called shopping bots — to ...