Amazon sued [PDF] Perplexity last November, arguing that the AI company deliberately disguised its automated browser to make it look like a customer using Chrome. In doing so, the biz argues, Perplexity is violating Amazon's rules prohibiting automated data gathering and is creating a security risk by relying on user credentials. At the time, Amazon accused Perplexity of ignoring its cease-and-desist demands and putting customers at risk by requiring them to expose their login details to a browser with documented security vulnerabilities. "When customers who use the Comet AI agent cannot trust
Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban… In her order, she wrote, "Amazon has provided strong evidence that Perplexity, through its Comet browser, accesses with the Amazon user's permission but without authorization by Amazon, the user's password-protected account … thereby obtaining information as to the user's private Amazon account inf…
… Jeronimo said that while there is plenty of talk about digital detoxes, it appeals to a small cohort of customers and the actual number of units sold is "negligible." “These are viable niches for small players, but not for a company of Amazon’s scale and expectations,” Jeronimo said. “Amazon cannot… …
… In other words, if your helpful AI shopping assistant turns out to be quietly upselling you on behalf of its creator, regulators may have a few questions. ® software competition and markets authority competition antitrust ai and ml ai
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… Its instruction set architecture is used in CPUs like Amazon's Graviton. To further reduce the barrier to entry to adopting its IP, Arm introduced compute subsystems in 2023 – essentially shake-n-bake processor blueprints containing all the ingredients necessary to create custom chips. …
… "Yes, I think this is Europe beginning to get their act together, but I do think it may be too little too late as the cloud boat has sailed," said Omdia Chief Analyst Roy Illsley. …
… There's no evidence to suggest that that's moving in a positive direction." No free lunches Deeks pointed to the recent outages at Amazon and AWS – incidents Amazon has insisted have nothing to do with AI – as indicators of what's to come. …