Ninth Circuit Vacates CFAA Injunction Against Perplexity’s Comet AI Agent

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (“the Ninth Circuit”) vacated a preliminary injunction against Perplexity AI, holding that Perplexity’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) agent acting at a user’s direction does not independently “access” a computer system under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) or California’s analogous statute….
By: Jones Day
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Ninth Circuit Vacates CFAA Injunction Against Perplexity’s Comet AI Agent

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (“the Ninth Circuit”) vacated a preliminary injunction against Perplexity AI, holding that Perplexity’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) agent acting at a user’s direction does not independently “access” a computer system under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) or California’s analogous statute….
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