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An appellate court rules a shopping agent is legally its user

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The 9th Circuit ruled that Perplexity's shopping agents are legally their users acting for themselves, the first appellate holding that an AI acting on your behalf is you, reopening a retailer to the bots.

Reporting date: 2026-08-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 5, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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An appellate court rules a shopping agent is legally its user
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Reporting date: 2026-08-05
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-05-a-court-rules-an-agent-is-its-user
Claim: The 9th Circuit ruled that Perplexity's shopping agents are legally their users acting for themselves, the first appellate holding that an AI acting on your behalf is you, reopening a retailer to the bots.
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- Welcome to August 5, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-5-2026
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