A U.S. appeals court has suspended a California judge’s order that had barred Perplexity AI Inc. from using its AI-powered shopping agent, Comet, on Amazon.com Inc.’s marketplace. The reprieve was ...

The tech industry seems to have two thoughts when it comes to where human workers fit into the AI-powered world they are creating: Either they think that all the jobs, except perhaps their own, will ...

Perplexity has won a reprieve from an appeals court, allowing the company's Comet shopping bot to continue shopping on Amazon (AMZN) on behalf of buyers—albeit only temporarily. Amazon (AMZN) sued ...

AI startups have released a flurry of automated e-commerce tools, or agents, that aim to change how people shop online. Amazon faces a dilemma of whether to work with agents or compete against them as ...

Judge orders Perplexity to stop using a browser agent to reach password-protected Amazon accounts and delete collected data. Perplexity AI must stop using its Comet browser agent to make purchases on ...

There are, to be generous, a few teething problems with Amazon.com Inc.’s recently upgraded AI shopping bot, “Rufus.” When I followed its suggestion to have it recommend books based on my reading ...

Perplexity AI Inc. won a reprieve from a court order that would have banned its Comet shopping bots from Amazon.com Inc. this week. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted a bid from the ...