{"id":20749,"date":"2025-11-05T17:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/amazon-sues-ai-startup-over-browsers-automated-shopping-and-buying-feature\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:37:44","slug":"amazon-sues-ai-startup-over-browsers-automated-shopping-and-buying-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/amazon-sues-ai-startup-over-browsers-automated-shopping-and-buying-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon sues AI startup over browser\u2019s automated shopping and buying feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon accuses Perplexity of covertly  accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing<\/p>\n<p>Amazon sued a prominent artificial intelligence startup on Tuesday over a shopping feature in the company\u2019s browser, which can automate placing orders for users. Amazon accused Perplexity AI of covertly accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerplexity\u2019s misconduct must end,\u201d Amazon\u2019s lawyers wrote. \u201cPerplexity is not allowed to go where it has been expressly told it cannot; that Perplexity\u2019s trespass involves code rather than a lockpick makes it no less unlawful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/05\/amazon-perplexity-ai-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bb96775be27606decc7e8e9f1ad4e40b3e30fcd2\/0_0_2610_2088\/master\/2610.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=338c7aa14cde993de597b3306dbf4f7e\" title=\"Amazon sues AI startup over browser\u2019s automated shopping and buying feature\" \/>Amazon accuses Perplexity of covertly  accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing<br \/>\nAmazon sued a prominent artificial intelligence startup on Tuesday over a shopping feature in the company\u2019s browser, which can automate placing orders for users. Amazon accused Perplexity AI of covertly accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing.<br \/>\n\u201cPerplexity\u2019s misconduct must end,\u201d Amazon\u2019s lawyers wrote. \u201cPerplexity is not allowed to go where it has been expressly told it cannot; that Perplexity\u2019s trespass involves code rather than a lockpick makes it no less unlawful.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon accuses Perplexity of covertly accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing Amazon sued a prominent artificial intelligence startup on Tuesday over a shopping feature in the company\u2019s browser, which can automate placing orders for users. Amazon accused Perplexity AI of covertly accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/amazon-sues-ai-startup-over-browsers-automated-shopping-and-buying-feature\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon sues AI startup over browser\u2019s automated shopping and buying feature<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20749"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}