April 23, 2026
Amazon on Wednesday pressed the Ninth Circuit to leave in place an injunction blocking a startup's artificial intelligence tool, Comet, from purchasing items on Amazon.com, calling the tool "a textbook violation" of federal and state law and arguing that the injunction is backed by a robust record.
April 02, 2026
Perplexity AI has urged the Ninth Circuit to scrap an injunction blocking the startup's artificial intelligence tool Comet from purchasing items on Amazon.com, arguing the lower court made numerous errors, and Amazon is trying to stifle competition to promote its own AI tools and "bombard" users with ads.
March 17, 2026
The Ninth Circuit has paused an order from a lower court that banned the Perplexity AI Inc.-made bot Comet from shopping on Amazon while an appeal of the order plays out.
March 10, 2026
A California federal judge has granted Amazon's request for a temporary injunction that could block Perplexity AI Inc. from using its artificial intelligence assistant Comet to purchase things on the retail site, an order that Perplexity has already appealed.
November 05, 2025
Global retailer Amazon.com slapped Perplexity AI with a federal lawsuit that claims the San Francisco startup's use of an AI-powered "personal assistant" Comet to make purchases on the Amazon platform goes against its terms of service and is creating a security risk.