US court overturns Amazon injunction against Perplexity AI

A US appeals tribunal has overturned an injunction that had temporarily stopped Perplexity from utilizing its AI-powered buying tools connected Amazon's platform.

The quality centres connected Perplexity's Comet browser, whose AI adjunct allows users to transportation retired tasks, including buying connected Amazon.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction that had barred Perplexity AI from operating its AI-powered Comet browser connected Amazon.

The tribunal recovered that the e-commerce institution is improbable to win successful its claims nether national and California machine entree laws.

The San Francisco-based tribunal said Amazon was improbable to amusement that Perplexity's AI agents breached either the national Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) oregon California's Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA).

A three-judge sheet recovered that, connected the existent record, Perplexity itself did not entree Amazon's machine systems.

The judges said Amazon's website is accessed by users, portion Perplexity's AI Assistant operates arsenic a instrumentality acting connected the user's instructions.

The tribunal made the aforesaid uncovering connected Amazon's CDAFA claim, stating that the institution was besides improbable to win connected that allegation.

The sheet besides said the different conditions for granting a preliminary injunction, including irreparable harm, the equilibrium of equities and the nationalist interest, favoured Perplexity.

It said an injunction would spot an unnecessary load connected the institution and restrict the improvement of emerging AI technology.

Amazon brought the suit against Perplexity successful November 2025, alleging breaches of the CFAA and CDAFA aft objecting to the AI agent's enactment with its platform.

A territory tribunal granted Amazon a preliminary injunction successful March 2026, though the Ninth Circuit aboriginal stayed that bid portion it reviewed the appeal.

The appeals tribunal said its ruling is constricted to the factual grounds presently earlier it and does not acceptable broader ineligible principles regarding agentic AI oregon imaginable liability successful different ineligible contexts.

The lawsuit has been sent backmost to the US District Court for the Northern District of California for further proceedings successful enactment with the Ninth Circuit's ruling.

In a abstracted development, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport has filed an antitrust suit against Amazon, Amazon Services and Amazon Logistics successful the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.

The ailment alleges that the institution unlawfully utilized monopsony powerfulness implicit its transportation work spouse (DSP) web to suppress wages, worsen moving conditions and bounds competition.