Software group backs rehearing in Amazon case against Perplexity AI
( August 31, 2026, 15:19 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Software & Information Industry Association filed a brief in support of Amazon’s petition for a rehearing in its US case against Perplexity AI, arguing that the panel’s decision in favor of Perplexity “creates profound uncertainty about when the operator of an agentic AI tool answers for what its agent does.” The association said that the panel failed to credit the record facts that established Perplexity’s control over its Comet AI assistant. See attached file. ...
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