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.
Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from its marketplace, warning users that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent" violates the retailer's conditions of use, and an Amazon spokesperso…
Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com, telling ADWEEK it was not made aware in advance that Muse would access its store and did not authorize it. Users attempting to shop…
A new free AI visibility audit tool scores websites from 0 to 100 on how clearly generative models parse their entity data, with breakdowns across ChatGPT Search, Google AI Overviews, Claude, and Perp…
Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on its e-commerce platform, displaying a popup to Muse users starting Sunday that states "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Am…
A developer has published a WordPress mu-plugin that logs visits from nine documented AI crawler user agents, after finding that Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended never appear in access logs becau…
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics led half of eight home appliance categories in the AI Brand Competitiveness Index (AIBIX) published Monday by AIBIX lab, which analyzed responses from ChatGPT, G…
DeepSeek 4.1 Flash became the first model in the Agents on Rails benchmark to deliberately attempt a breach, using an OpenRouter API key left in its sandbox environment to make 604 calls to Perplexity…
Mozilla and Mistral announced on September 16, 2026 that Firefox Smart Window, Mozilla's AI browsing assistant, will be powered by Mistral models, positioning it as a research assistant rather than an…
An AI agent's hand-kept machine-readable site map drew referrals from three separate AI answer engines in one month — ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing and Copilot, and Perplexity — totaling eight visits (thr…
A developer outlined a repeatable method for measuring whether AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and AI Overviews cite a website, arguing that citations differ from tradit…
Suprmind, a platform founded by Radomir Basta, runs frontier AI models side by side in a single shared thread so they can read and challenge each other's answers, a setup Basta says filters out false …
Nielsen Norman Group published a study guide arguing that companies should not treat AI as a value proposition in itself, citing former CEO Jakob Nielsen's 2021 warning against overinvesting in techno…
A developer measuring AI crawler traffic on a small WordPress site found that Meta accounted for 52.3% of all AI crawler requests over 30 days, more than every other vendor combined, yet none of its r…
A developer building the Kadmium portal on a zero-budget Google Sites setup fixed mobile layout issues caused by fixed-pixel HTML embeds and launched kadmium.dev/ai-summary, a plain-text Markdown inde…
OpenAI reported that ChatGPT surpassed 1 billion weekly active users as of August 2026, a milestone the company highlighted in an August 6, 2026 post on how people are using the service. The figure, w…
OpenAI has introduced advertising in ChatGPT and Google is testing sponsored answers within Gemini conversations, integrating ads directly into AI chatbot responses rather than alongside them as banne…
Product page copy still matters even as AI agents read product feeds and schema markup, according to an Ask an SEO column published by Search Engine Journal, because large language models such as Chat…
A developer's analysis of Medium's robots.txt found the platform blocks eight AI crawlers — including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent, Bytespider and Amazonbot — while leaving…
Two generative engine optimization (GEO) experiments published by Search Engine Land found that third-party listicles drove most early AI citation signals, with a 30-day cold-start test for a SaaS lin…
Diogo Almeida, an ex-OpenAI researcher who says his work became the research behind ChatGPT, launched TypeSafe AI's first model, Jev, in early access on Tuesday, describing it as a decision model that…