Amazon sues Perplexity over 'agentic' shopping tool

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Amazon sues Perplexity over 'agentic' shopping tool
Amazon is suing Perplexity AI over the startup’s "agentic" shopping feature, which uses automation to place orders for users, saying it covertly accessed Amazon customer accounts and disguised automated activity as human browsing. The clash highlights an emerging debate over regulation of ...

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