Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse and accuses Perplexity of misleading a court
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Amazon simultaneously blocking Muse and escalating its Perplexity complaint underscores that AI agents touching commerce are now legal and platform battlegrounds. Anyone building shopping or browsing agents should assume adversarial platform responses and bake legal review into product strategy.
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