Appeals Court Overturns Ban on Perplexity AI Shopping Agents on Amazon

appeals court overturned a March ruling that temporarily barred Perplexity’ s artificial intelligence-powered agentic shopping tools from accessing Amazon’ s platform, Reuters reported Tuesday (Aug. Amazon argued that Perplexity’s AI agents violated a federal hacking law, while Perplexity countered that it did not violate the statute that prevents people from accessing computers without permission, according to the report. When overturning the ban on Tuesday, the appeals court ruled t