Tool, Not a Person: The Ninth Circuit Vacates Amazon's Injunction Against Perplexity's Shopping Agent - August 5, 2026

Tool, Not a Person: The Ninth Circuit Vacates Amazon's Injunction Against Perplexity's Shopping Agent A federal appeals court has vacated Amazon's preliminary injunction against Perplexity's Comet browser, holding that it is the user, not the company, who "accesses" Amazon's servers under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Chris and Laura break down the published opinion, the "tool, not a person" holding that sidesteps every hard question about machine intent, the rule of lenity argument that...