Amazon faces growing backlash from small retailers over its AI-powered Buy for Me tool that lists products without consent, while simultaneously suing Perplexity for similar data-scraping practices.

Merchants, who don’t sell their products on the retail giant’s site, soon discovered that Amazon had duplicated their product ...

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(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. is suing Perplexity AI Inc. to try and stop the startup from helping users buy items on the world’s largest online marketplace, setting up a showdown that may have ...

The mass e-commerce company — which alleges Comet agents are covertly making purchases for users — is open to third party agentic commerce, but on its own terms. Amazon’s legal move against Perplexity ...

Amazon has introduced Help Me Decide, an AI-powered shopping tool designed to help customers choose between multiple similar items, the company announced Thursday. Help Me Decide offers customers ...

According to Amazon, Perplexity has persistently refused to operate transparently with respect to its agentic AI product in the Amazon Store, but the AI startup has accused the ecommerce major of ...

Amazon has threatened legal action against AI startup Perplexity. Perplexity called the move "a threat to all internet users." The fight could impact the future of AI-powered shopping. The battle over ...