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00:02A federal judge temporarily blocked Perplexity from accessing Amazon's website
00:06through its Comet Artificial Intelligence browser, according to CNBC.
00:10Amazon sued Perplexity in November,
00:13alleging the startup concealed AI agents to scrape its website without approval,
00:17while Perplexity called the lawsuit a bully tactic.
00:20U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney wrote that Amazon provided strong evidence
00:25that Comet accessed its website at users' direction without approval.
00:28The company spent more than $5,000 developing tools to block the activity and prevent future access.
00:35Amazon said Perplexity's agents posed security risks by operating within protected computer systems
00:40and created challenges for its advertising business.
00:43Chesney granted a preliminary injunction,
00:45but included a one-week stay to allow Perplexity to appeal the order.
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