India, Nov. 5 -- Amazon has issued a legal warning to the AI start-up Perplexity, asking it to remove its 'agentic browser' from the Amazon online store. The company confirmed the move after alleging that Perplexity's AI-powered shopping assistant, called Comet, violated its service rules by failing to identify itself as an automated agent.

In a statement released on Tuesday, both companies acknowledged that Amazon had sent a cease-and-desist notice to Perplexity. The letter came after several earlier warnings, with Amazon having maintained that the AI assistant was in breach of its platform policies. Perplexity disclosed the development through a blog post titled "Bullying is not innovation," saying it received what it described as an "...