Perplexity is an AI search engine that answers questions with cited sources, combining LLM reasoning with live web search. It is positioned as an alternative to traditional search engines.
A Brennan Center for Justice study found that major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, consistently disputed election conspiracy theories when challenged, …
Revolut's automated assistant Rita charged customers a £55 break fee when they tried to cancel their Ultra subscription after the bank reduced WeWork perks, despite Revolut waiving the fee for such ca…
PerkFuel has published a guide on tracking AI referral traffic in Google Analytics 4, based on its analysis of how visits from AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity appear in anal…
Sageskills Technology launched FoundGPT, a Shopify app that optimizes stores for AI search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, featuring a 25-point AI-readiness audit, auto-fix for product d…
A developer has built OptiQra, an open-source website optimization tool that not only identifies issues but also automatically fixes them, using deterministic changes for simple problems and optional …
Google Gemini fell four places to rank 16 in Similarweb's July 2026 ranking of the world's most-visited websites, while ChatGPT held firm at rank 5. The drop follows Gemini's first traffic-share decli…
IIT Roorkee has launched a four-month postgraduate certificate programme in Building AI-Powered Business Applications, designed by its iHUB DivyaSampark for working professionals with at least three y…
EZY Research's 12-week study of 83 websites found OpenAI's GPTBot fetched llms.txt only 7 times versus 3,990 robots.txt fetches, while Meta's crawler fetched llms.txt 193 times, more than its 172 robo…
OpenAI shut down ChatGPT Atlas, its Chromium-based AI browser with a ChatGPT sidebar and agent mode, on August 9, 2026, 292 days after launching on October 21, 2025. The browser never left macOS, with…
AI adoption among engineers is easy, but converting that into business value remains elusive, according to an engineering leader's forthcoming book. The author found that while individual productivity…
Perplexity named zero brands in 100% of non-list questions in a two-year-old category and 75% in a twenty-year-old one, across 480 answers in a study by an independent researcher. Claude named no bran…
Perplexity blocked all markdown advertising on Time.com from influencing its AI agents and search results, calling the practice deceptive, per Digiday's August 11, 2026 report. Time's program, run wit…
A 47-answer study of AI visibility tooling found that ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity agreed on vendor recommendations less than a third of the time, with six brands—Semrush, Profound, Otterly, Peec A…
A new analysis by citability.dev founder found that ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity named his website only 3 times across 47 usable answers to 16 buyer questions, with ChatGPT and Perplexity each nami…
AI bot verification is the missing half of crawler-control guides, as User-Agent strings prove nothing and several fetchers bypass robots.txt by design. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Perplexity, Meta, Ap…
ChatPlayground AI Unlimited, a workspace that lets users compare responses from 20+ AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, and Perplexity, is available for a one-time $54.97 through Aug…
Perplexity has begun blocking ads served to AI agents on Time's website, warning publishers that running such 'deceptive advertising' could result in downranking in its search index. The ads, created …
Developer Marco Bellingeri opened his website's robots.txt to all AI crawlers to boost visibility, but after receiving 33,561 pageviews in its first month, he realized the number was inflated by bots …
Similarweb Ltd. (NYSE: SMWB) reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $77.2 million, up 9% year-over-year, and its first-ever positive GAAP operating profit of $0.7 million, while raising full-year gui…
Google is testing a homepage for signed-out desktop users in the U.S. that removes the Google Search button, replacing it with three AI Mode shortcuts: Create images, Ask about files, and Brainstorm. …