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Amazon has secured a temporary win in its fight with Perplexity over the use of AI shopping bots. Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> reported that a San Francisco federal court has determined that Perplexity must stop using its Comet web browser’s AI agent to make purchases for users on Amazon’s marketplace. The AI company will have a week to appeal the decision, otherwise it has been ordered to stop accessing any password-protected areas of Amazon’s systems and destroy its copies of Amazon’s data while the two companies continue to argue their cases.<\/p>\n “Amazon has provided strong evidence that Perplexity, through its Comet browser, accesses with the Amazon user’s permission but without authorization by Amazon, the user’s password-protected account,” District Judge Maxine Chesney wrote in placing the temporary block.<\/p>\n “The preliminary injunction will prevent Perplexity\u2019s unauthorized access to the Amazon store and is an important step in maintaining a trusted shopping experience for Amazon customers,” an Amazon spokesperson told Bloomberg<\/em>.<\/p>\n