Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse

Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating Amazon Web Services rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so, WIRED has learned.An AWS spokesperson, who spoke to WIRED on the condition that they would not be named, confirmed the company’s investigation of Perplexity. WIRED had…