2025-08-04
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 appear to be "stealth crawling" sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls.
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2025-08-26
Perplexity sued by Japanese media giants for stealing information and presenting false information
Another day, another instance of AI companies purportedly engaging in copyright infringement. Two Japanese media groups, Nikkei and the Asahi Shimbun, are suing Perplexity for illicitly having "c [...]
2025-08-07
Trump's Truth Social launches AI search powered by Perplexity
Truth Social, President Trump's social media platform, is beta testing an AI search feature powered by Perplexity. Truth Search AI is launching first on the web version of Truth Social, with plan [...]
2025-08-25
Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content
Perplexity is launching a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers that will pay them every time its AI assistants use an article to answer a question, The Wall Street Journal reports. Perplexity is la [...]
2025-01-09
Perplexity will now show hotel information from TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor has entered into a partnership with Perplexity to offer a human touch to the AI company's hotel information. Through this deal, listings for hotel searches on Perplexity will now incl [...]
2025-07-09
Perplexity's Comet AI browser is available now for $200 per month
Comet, Perplexity's AI-powered web browser, is available now for people paying for the company's $200 per month Perplexity Max subscription. The company offered the browser in a beta form fo [...]
2025-06-21
Apple executives have held internal discussions about potentially bidding for AI startup Perplexity
Apple is looking for ways to prepare for an AI future without Google search. Now it's eyeing startup Perplexity. Meta already tried and struck out.<br /> The article Apple executives have h [...]
2025-09-03
PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser
Perplexity, the NVIDIA- and Bezos-backed AI company, is partnering with PayPal to get its Comet browser in front of millions of the financial tech giant's users. The deal will see PayPal and Venm [...]
2025-02-28
Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+
The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]
2025-06-21
Apple is reportedly considering the acquisition of Perplexity AI
Apple's executives are thinking of acquiring Perplexity AI both to get more talent and to be able to offer an AI-based search engine in the future, according to Bloomberg. Adrian Perica, Apple� [...]