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Why does the Ninth Circuit Perplexity ruling matter for the future of AI?

This is the first federal circuit court ruling to address the intersection of agentic AI and computer fraud law. It establishes that the legal identity of who is accessing a website follows the human who gave the instruction, not the AI tool that executed it — a principle that will shape how every agentic AI product operates going forward.

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A Federal Court Just Ruled Your AI Agent Is Legally You — Not the Company Behind It

The Ninth Circuit ruled that when an AI agent acts on your behalf, it is you accessing a website, not the AI company — a landmark first for agentic AI law.

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