{"id":243979,"date":"2025-11-04T20:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243979\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:36:09","slug":"amazon-demands-perplexity-stop-ai-tool-from-making-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243979\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Tool From Making Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/AMZN:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Amazon.com Inc.<\/a> has sent a cease-and-desist letter to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2235574D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Perplexity AI Inc.<\/a> demanding that the artificial intelligence search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases online for users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The e-commerce giant is accusing Perplexity of committing computer fraud by failing to disclose when its AI agent is shopping on a user\u2019s behalf, in violation of Amazon\u2019s terms of service, according to people familiar with the letter sent on Friday. The document also said Perplexity\u2019s tool degraded the Amazon shopping experience and introduced privacy vulnerabilities, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon.com Inc. has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity AI Inc. demanding that the artificial intelligence search startup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,102359,10981,4143,6285,733,4308,16008,12299,102358,1758,1208,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-243979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-inc","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-aravind-srinivas","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-customer-service","tag-e-commerce","tag-perplexity-ai-inc","tag-shopping","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}