Ninth Circuit vacates Amazon injunction; AI agent logs emerge as eDiscovery issue

Tool or Intruder? What Amazon v. Perplexity Means for Agentic AI and the CFAA

On August 4, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc., vacating a preliminary injunction that had barred Perplexity’s AI-enabled web browser from interacting with Amazon’s website. The decision addresses a question of first impression: whether an AI “agent” that assists a user in navigating a website constitutes unauthorized “access” under the federal Co…

Ninth Circuit vacates Amazon injunction; AI agent logs emerge as eDiscovery issue

Editor’s Note: A user who sends an AI agent shopping is the one accessing the store, under both the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California’s CDAFA. That is the Ninth Circuit’s Aug. 4 answer, on a preliminary record, in Amazon’s case against Perplexity, and with it the court vacated the injunction that had restricted Perplexity’s Comet Assistant on Amazon. The panel weighed Amazon’s argument that an autonomous Assistant made the acce…