2025-08-06
Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of secretly crawling sites despite explicit blocks
Cloudflare is accusing the AI search engine Perplexity of covertly crawling websites, even when site owners have explicitly forbidden access through robots.txt files or firewall rules. According to the company, Perplexity disguises its identity to sidestep restrictions and is violating established internet norms.
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Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again
Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appe [...]
2025-08-26
Perplexity sued by Japanese media giants for stealing information and presenting false information
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Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content
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2025-01-09
Perplexity will now show hotel information from TripAdvisor
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2025-06-21
Apple executives have held internal discussions about potentially bidding for AI startup Perplexity
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Perplexity's Comet AI browser is available now for $200 per month
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2025-08-07
Trump's Truth Social launches AI search powered by Perplexity
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2025-01-07
New UK law would criminalize creating sexually explicit deepfakes
Bad actors have created deepfakes to imitate celebrity endorsements, President Biden and employers. But, one of the most heinous uses is making sexually explicit deepfakes of real people. Now, the UK [...]
2025-07-01
Cloudflare experiment will block AI bot scrapers unless they pay a fee
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