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 developer built a free technical checker that evaluates whether a website is ready to be crawled, understood, extracted, and trusted by AI-powered search engines. The tool separates 'AI visibility' …
Perplexity, an answer engine that synthesizes web search results into cited answers, offers free and paid tiers with features like Pro Search and Research mode. While useful for research, its citation…
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A27 5G, a budget phone with a hole-punch display, Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chipset, and AI features, but the price rose $50 to $350 compared to its predecessor.…
Steel.dev released Atlas, an open-source deep research agent that allows users to own their research data. Atlas decomposes questions, routes sub-tasks to various researchers like Exa and Perplexity, …
Apple hardcoded a restriction into Siri AI's system prompt in iOS 27 beta 2, causing it to refuse to summarize, read, or extract information from URLs. The move aims to prevent Siri AI from repackagin…
A new analysis of server logs for CitationIQ.com found that 81.8% of claimed AI assistant traffic was fake, with only 6 of 33 requests verified as legitimate. Googlebot spoofing was even worse, with j…
The tech industry is falling into a 'tool trap' by over-optimizing for specific agent protocols like MCP and AI Skills instead of developing a broader Agent Experience (AX) discipline. AX, the agent-f…
Google is running a World Cup brand campaign featuring soccer stars to remind users that its search engine now supports complex queries through AI features like Gemini. The campaign highlights shiftin…
Inithouse launched Be Recommended, a tool that scores a product's AI visibility from 0 to 100 across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. The score is based on how often, prominently, and positive…
A GeoScan analysis of 100 leading B2B brands found an average GEO Readiness score of 47 out of 100, with no brand fully optimized for AI search engines. The study reveals that many brands rely on trai…
Dale Francis Reding developed StyleSweeper for Draw Things, a professional-grade style sweeping engine that explores high-fidelity visual treatments across creative disciplines. The tool uses 11 style…
AI industry super PACs spent over $40 million in a New York congressional primary, defeating assemblymember Alex Bores, a proponent of strict AI regulation. The race became a proxy battle over federal…
Doola launched a Formation API that lets platforms embed US company formation, EIN support, registered agents, and compliance into their products without requiring SSN or US residency. The API support…
SEO-Hacker published a guide on reverse-engineering which pages AI assistants cite, covering ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. The guide instructs testers to run audi…
Microsoft's security team detected over 50 poisoning attempts from 31 companies across 14 industries in a 60-day window, targeting AI assistants including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Google Ge…
Microsoft has identified over 50 AI recommendation poisoning attempts in 60 days, where hidden instructions in links and documents manipulate AI assistants to recommend specific vendors. The attacks t…
Alex Bores, a New York assemblyman who campaigned on AI safety, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district. Pro-AI industry super PAC Leading the Future …
BFJ Digital released a technology briefing on June 23, 2026, documenting a shift in CRM platforms toward formatting data for conversational AI engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. The briefin…
A developer explains that Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is an engineering challenge requiring developers to ensure AI crawlers from ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can access and render content…
Search Engine Journal reported that SEO teams struggle to track AI citations across multiple engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, with data scattered across six to twelve non-integrating tool…