Ninth Circuit vacates injunction against Perplexity
On August 4, the Ninth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction that had barred Perplexity’s Comet agent from accessing Amazon.com on a user’s behalf. On the record before it, the court held that Amazon had not shown a likelihood of success on its CFAA or CDAFA theories because the user—not Perplexity—accessed Amazon’s computers when directing the agent to act.
Other verified developments
- SB 574 was placed on the Assembly Appropriations suspense file.
- The California Privacy Protection Agency continued an information-gathering process concerning inferences derived from personal information.
- SB 1000 remained pending and had not removed the AI Transparency Act’s existing one-million-monthly-user threshold.
- AB 2713 remained active in the Senate process after passing the Assembly.
Editorial exclusions
Unverified federal legislation and reported court filings were excluded. AB 446 and AB 2564 were treated as separate surveillance-pricing measures rather than a bill-number error.
Informational only; not legal advice.