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.
AI browser agents such as Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Operator are increasingly performing tasks like shopping and booking on behalf of users, prompting startups to reconsider building websites as…
OpenAI plans to offer U.S. college students a free year of ChatGPT Plus, its largest student giveaway yet, with enrollment verified through SheerID and limited to an allowlist of more than 220 campuse…
Accel, a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, India, has raised $3.5 billion in new funds for early-stage investments, including $1.35 billion for a global…
Perplexity and OpenAI's SearchGPT are undermining the traditional click-through economy by delivering direct answers that reduce traffic to original publishers, according to an analysis of AI-driven s…
A developer outlines a shift from single-prompt LLM workflows to agentic content loops that separate research, drafting, and critique to reduce hallucinations and improve factual accuracy. The approac…
Perplexity has blocked Time's markdown ads from influencing its search index, calling them 'deceptive advertising,' less than two weeks after Time began serving ads to AI agents. Perplexity's chief co…
Google is testing an AI-first homepage for signed-out users that replaces the classic Search button with Create images, Ask about files, and Brainstorm shortcuts, plus an AI Mode button inside the sea…
A developer built AskAiRank, a tool that tracks how often products are mentioned by AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. The tool samples answers over time and parses free-form prose to…
OpenAI's ChatGPT began sending 157% more referral traffic to websites on May 7, with the share of visits landing on brand homepages jumping from roughly 25% to 60%, according to a Similarweb report. T…
Prominara's GEO Strategy Playbook for Competitive Industries 2026 outlines a tactical roadmap for making brand and product pages crawlable, extractable, and citable by AI answer engines like ChatGPT, …
To write for both humans and AI engines in 2026, content creators should use an answer-first lead, short labeled sections, authoritative inline citations, machine-readable schema (JSON-LD), and a meas…
A developer measured product recommendations from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity across 40 buying questions and found significant disagreement: 437 distinct products were named, with nearly half appe…
Programmatic SEO has evolved for 2026, requiring brands to build Role x Market page matrices enriched with proprietary data to succeed in AI search and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). The strategy i…
A developer analyzed Cloudflare logs from their own site over a 23.5-hour window and split AI bot traffic into three categories: live answers (189 fetches), search indexing (541 fetches), and training…
KinetixSEO, a new SEO and AI-citation tool, launched with a free snapshot and paid analyses starting at €29, offering page-specific fixes and a re-scan to verify each fix went live. The tool uses 39 s…
VerusCite, a new application by crime analyst Andrew Wheeler, checks academic documents for hallucinated references, processing papers for about $0.50 each using cheap AI models and a $40-per-month ho…
Kevin Indig's AI Halftime Report for H1 2026 finds that AI's impact is outpacing measurement, with software stocks falling nearly 30% on sentiment rather than fundamentals and AI cited in over 87,000 …
Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region's largest AI factory in Armenia, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies infrastructure, with plans to deploy more than 70…
Conductor's Pat Reinhart and Lindsay Boyajian Hagan presented the AEO Playbook in a Search Engine Journal webinar, arguing that AI crawlers now visit websites thousands of times without sending traffi…
A former Google Ads team member who helped scale the platform to billions in advertiser spend says AI search is the biggest shift yet, moving the game from ranking to being the answer, and cites Semru…