One of the world’s leading online shopping platforms is locking a rival tech giant’s artificial intelligence agent out of its store. Amazon banned Meta’s Muse AI agent from making purchases on the company’s website Sunday after requesting that Meta remove its site from the agent’s shopping circuit, GeekWirereported. 4lossin federal court to the smaller company Perplexity AI, when the Ninth Circuit threw out Amazon’s injunction and said the conglomerate was “unlikely” to win on its claim that Perplexity’s shopping assistant hacked its website. “We think it’s fairly straightforward that third-party applications that offer to make purchases on behalf of customers from other businesses should operate openly and respect service provider decisions about whether or not to participate,” an Amazon spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This helps ensure a safe, secure, and reliable customer experience, and it is how others operate including food delivery apps and the restaurants they take orders for, delivery services apps and the stores they shop from, and online travel agencies and the airlines they book tickets with for customers.