Perplexity has won a reprieve from an appeals court, allowing the company's Comet shopping bot to continue shopping on Amazon on behalf of buyers ...

Consumers are ramping up their use of bot shoppers — automated software programs underpinned by artificial intelligence ...

A San Francisco court issued the temporary order while the two companies argue over whether AI-powered shopping agents can ...

Judge orders Perplexity to stop using a browser agent to reach password-protected Amazon accounts and delete collected data.

Perplexity AI Inc. must for now stop using its Comet web browser agent to make purchases on behalf of shoppers from Amazon.com Inc.’s online marketplace, a court ruled this week.

A judge ruled that Amazon can keep outside AI bots off its site for now, but retailers are preparing for a new normal in shopping.

Amazon blocks Perplexity’s Comet shopping bot via court order, raising AI agent, terms-of-service, and ad revenue issues—get ...

A federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily yanked the shopping privileges of Perplexity AI’s Comet browser on Amazon, blocking the tool from making purchases on users’ behalf. The court also ...

Plans for agentic shopping assistants are under way at Australia’s major companies. Guardian Australia tested the technology after a string of mishaps ...

Amazon.com Inc.’s AI-infused Rufus shopping assistant has new features that make it a “faster, more useful, state-of-the-art shopping companion.” Google’s agentic checkout feature “can do the heavy ...

Over the next couple of years, automated bot shoppers are likely to start replacing human shoppers. And that’s going to force retailers to shift sales tactics to be successful. Autonomous bots acting ...

Amazon.com Inc.’s AI-infused Rufus shopping assistant has new features that make it a “faster, more useful, state-of-the-art shopping companion.” Google’s agentic checkout feature “can do the heavy ...