Amazon Blocks Meta's Muse Shopping Agent as Legal Fight With Perplexity Escalates
SuB8u · x · 2026-09-22
Amazon cutting off Meta/Muse's shopping AI agent is drawing attention, and Bloomberg's Jason Del Rey adds key context:
- Amazon already runs its own shopping agent, "Buy for Me", but hasn't marketed it heavily — partly because it does things Amazon is trying to stop other agents from doing.
- Amazon sued Perplexity last year over its Comet agent shopping on users' behalf; an appeals court recently sided with Perplexity after a lower court had temporarily banned Comet from accessing Amazon.
- On Monday Amazon amended its complaint, accusing Perplexity of misleading the appeals court: Perplexity claimed its servers never directly touched Amazon's and everything happened in the customer's browser, but Amazon disputes this.
- The original quoted post frames this as a coming "digital knife fight" over shopping agents, where nobody wants to be commoditized or layered.
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