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AMAZON SENDS PERPLEXITY A CEASE AND DESIST OVER ITS AI AGENTS SHOPPING FOR YOU

Amazon has demanded that Perplexity stop its agentic web browser from buying products on behalf of humans. It claims that the Comet browser degrades the shopping and customer service experience that Amazon provides. Amazon has accused Perplexity of violating its terms of service and committing computer fraud by failing to disclose when an AI is shopping for a user. Perplexity responded by accusing Amazon of bullying and using litigation to stifle innovation.

THE COMPANY QUIETLY FUNNELING PAYWALLED ARTICLES TO AI DEVELOPERS

At the heart of AI web scraping is Common Crawl, a small nonprofit that supplies, and is funded by, major AI labs with internet data while flagrantly disregarding paywalls and removal requests. The organization has gathered millions of articles from The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publishers (many of them now suing AI companies), but has avoided compliance by making its search tool return "no captures" for domains that actually contain thousands of articles.

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