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.
Perplexity launched its Personal Computer AI tool for Windows on June 3, extending the agentic platform to over 1 billion devices after a Mac-only debut in April. The tool, which Perplexity calls a ge…
Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the OS to be used as a locally run AI system that can access local files and apps to perform actions s…
Creator content — reviews, videos, and social posts — increasingly shapes AI search answers because large language models borrow human opinions for subjective queries, according to Tinuiti's Q1 2026 A…
On July 20, a federal judge gave final approval to the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history, requiring Anthropic to pay $3,000 per work for roughly 500,000 books it pulled from pirate librarie…
A developer built a tool to check whether AI assistants name their product, and found that across 44 answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, their product was named zero times. The developer dis…
SOCi's 2026 Local Visibility Index finds that AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity recommend far fewer local businesses than Google's local 3-pack, with ChatGPT surfacing only 1.2% of loc…
AI crawlers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity do not execute JavaScript, leaving client-rendered single-page apps invisible to them, according to an audit by developer and product builder who run…
AI labs lack effective strategies to build user trust, according to a semiotic analysis of 27 brands including Rolex, Reuters, and frontier AI labs. The study identifies two key dimensions—authority v…
Google will continue its legal fight against AI web scraping despite a court loss last week, the company confirmed, with Reddit also pursuing a similar lawsuit. Google sued SerpApi in December 2025 un…
A federal judge dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpAPI for scraping its search results, ruling that Google's DMCA 1201 anti-circumvention claim lacked a legitimate copyright basis. The court found…
Perplexity released pplx, an official single-binary command line client for its Search API that returns grounded search results and extracted page text as JSON, targeting both humans and coding agents…
Review Collect, a platform used by over 2,000 Shopify stores, helps brands automatically collect 30 reviews in 30 days to boost visibility with AI-driven buyers. According to a Review Collect study, b…
A new framework called an AI entity footprint audit helps businesses evaluate how clearly AI systems understand their organization, according to an article on Search Engine Land. The audit involves as…
Anthropic's Claude Cowork, an autonomous agent that went generally available on April 9, 2026, can now perform SEO agency work worth $5,000 to $10,000 per month for free with any paid plan, according …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined X for the first time and used his debut post to advocate for open-weight AI models, linking to an open letter signed by Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Perplexity, and other major…
The web is no longer optimized for human visitors, as AI search, zero-click results, and machine consumption are fundamentally changing its economics, architecture, and purpose, according to a member-…
ClickHouse has relaunched its developer documentation on Mintlify, the intelligent knowledge platform, to improve search and agent accessibility. The new site features an AI-powered search, a simplifi…
Free AI tools in 2026 can handle 90% of daily tasks without subscriptions, according to a guide for beginners. Recommended tools include Claude and GPT for general LLMs, Perplexity for research, Leona…
Cloudflare launched granular AI traffic controls this month, replacing its single 'block AI bots' toggle with three independently configurable categories—Search, Agent, and Training—available to all c…
A University of Washington study published on July 16, 2026, as arXiv:2607.14611 found that AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI can correctly refuse malicious instructions but still store them in pers…