By Amy Miller ( August 4, 2026, 20:25 GMT | Insight) -- Amazon is unlikely to succeed in claims that Perplexity AI's shopping agent violates federal or California anti-hacking laws, a federal appeals court in Seattle said, lifting an injunction that had blocked the AI tool. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that users, not Perplexity, were accessing Amazon's computers when using the assistant.Amazon is unlikely to succeed in its effort to use anti-hacking laws to stop Perplexity AI's online shopping agent from interacting with Amazon.com, a US appeals court said Tuesday....
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