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AI has sparked a new wave of competition in the browser market, as agentic AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet and others compete with Gemini-enhanced Chrome (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/11/ai-browser-wars-agents-google-perplexity…

Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI
Google has integrated Gemini into Chrome, while Perplexity and Opera have launched AI-native browsers too.

*suspiro* 🤦‍♂️
https://masto.pt/@tugatech/115373473692178204

Perplexity Head of Publisher Partnerships Jessica Chan says it isn't "taking any new advertisers", and that ads aren't currently planned for AI browser Comet (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-pauses-n…

Perplexity Pauses New Advertising Deals to Reassess Ambitions
The move highlights the AI search startup's monetization challenges.

Perplexity an Bord: Deutsche Telekom kündigt "KI-Phone Pro" an
Die Deutsche Telekom erweitert sein KI-Phone-Portfolio um ein weiteres Smartphone: Das "T Phone 3 Pro" Pro kostet knapp 230 Euro und hat Perplexity an Bord.

Popcorn, anybody?
Amazon Accuses Perplexity of Computer Fraud, Demands It Stop AI Agent From Buying On Its Site - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/04/1839231/amazon-accuses-perplexity-…

KI-Browser Comet von Perplexity nun frei verfügbar
Der Browser mit dem KI-Agenten von Perplexity war bislang zahlenden Kunden vorbehalten. Er steht nun allen Nutzern kostenlos zur Verfügung.
https://www.

Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of "bullying" after receiving "an aggressive legal threat" demanding Comet not make purchases on users' behalf (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/perplexity-ai-amazon-bullying-comet-browser.html

Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of bullying with legal threat over Comet browser
Amazon wants Perplexity to prevent its users from using its AI browser called Comet to make purchases on their behalf.

Als je een AI browser gebruikt zoals die van OpenAI, die met je meeleest en alles onthoudt, is er dan sprake van scrapen? 🤔 En als dit geen scrapen is, dan lijkt me het handhaven van een scrapingsverbod voor AI moeilijk worden. Gebruikers zullen in de nabije toekomst hun browser namelijk vragen op de achtergrond wat "browse werk" voor hun te doen.

Browsers OpenAI en Perplexity omzeilen paywalls namens gebruikers
AI-browsers zoals Atlas van OpenAI en Comet van Perplexity kunnen op sites om paywalls heen van sites die AI-scraping verbieden. Omdat het lijkt op verkeer van mensen, blokkeren de sites de browsers niet.

KI-Modelle: New York Times klagt gegen Perplexity, Meta schließt Lizenzabkommen
Der Streit um Medieninhalte in KI-Modellen spitzt sich zu. OpenAI muss Chatprotokolle herausgeben, NYT klagt gegen Perplexity. Meta setzt auf Lizenzabkommen.

The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/technology/new-york-times-perplexity-ai-l…

New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work
Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.

Perplexity is making its AI browser Comet, previously $200 per month as part of Perplexity Max, free for all, with rate limits (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/perplexity-makes-200-ai-browser-free-to-battle-ai-sl…

Find out how Perplexity wants to fight AI 'slop' with its latest browser
Perplexity's Comet browser is now free as the AI startup fights low-quality content and partners with publishers like CNN and The Washington Post.

The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/technology/new-york-times-perplexity-ai-l…

New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work
Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.

Der #Comet-Browser von #Perplexity wirkt wie ein Stern am KI-Himmel – leuchtet aber eher schwach, wenn es um den Umgang mit hochgeladenen Dateien geht. Räume sichtbar, Inhalte unzugänglich. Bis zur technischen Gleichwertigkeit mit der Webversion bleibt der Browser ein Versprechen mit Warteschleife.…

Seven US and French news publishers sign up with Perplexity's Comet Plus, a $5/month add-on for the AI-powered Comet browser, with revenue splits for publishers (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/perple

Perplexity launches AI subscription revenue-share scheme for publishers
AI platform Perplexity has signed up seven US-based and French publishers as launch partners for its Comet Plus subscription.

Fingerprint option for login missing most of the time after installing #MacOS 15.7.1 (24G231). Regular search and Apple support useless.
Perplexity:
The fingerprint login option missing most of the time after installing macOS 15.7.1 is a widely reported issue, especially with MacBook Pro. Many users note that the Touch ID option either does not appear at login or takes a significant dela…

Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/snap-…

Ganhei um ano de uso da perplexity AI versão pro. 🤔
Quase todas as vezes em que tentei usar essas IA em alguma coisa de trabalho eu me arrependi, mas depois vou experimentar essa daí.

Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/snap-…

hahah.. yes.. YES...
The #tech #conglomerates, having scoured all crumbs of the original #internet, how turn to each other and devour themselves.

Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI
Reddit is selling your posts to AI companies, and now it’s suing to stop the ones who won’t pay. Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get …

heise | Surfen mit KI: Der neue Comet-Browser von Perplexity im Praxistest
Der Comet-Browser von Perplexity verbindet KI-Sprachmodelle mit Websites. Als Agent kann er zudem Mails beantworten, Termine organisieren oder Routen planen.

🔍 #Perplexity launches Search #API - direct access to real-time web index powering their answers without generative layer #AI

#TIL "postdemokratischen Empörungsbewegungen"
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/mahnwache-vs-antifa-t61kO5CsTSKZ14VBJfP2SA#0

I had over three hundred accounts following me that I didn't follow back, mostly because I lost track of all the new followers.
So I did the unthinkable thing:
I asked Perplexity to write me a python script to follow everyone back. I will just unfollow some of them later, if I don't like them enough. But for now, everyone gets the benefit of the doubt.😉
The script needed some adjustments, but it worked.
Here's the script if you need it:

followback
A short python script that looks for all your mastodon followers that you don't follow back, and follows them.

Perplexity sagt folgendes zum fehlenden Quote-Zeichen ":
Das fehlende Quote-Zeichen in #Mastodon 4.5.0-rc.2 ist kein Fehler in deiner Instanz, sondern Teil der laufenden Umstellung auf das neue Quote Posts System, welches die bisherige Zitatdarstellung ersetzt bzw. neu implementiert. Ein wieder sichtbares klassisches Quote-Zeichen wird eventuell in den nächsten Final-Versionen oder …

Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li

The Little-Known Search and Browser Startup Generating $100 Million in Annualized Revenue
Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

Comparing and constrasting AI platforms and finding the best is Perplexity. (I have an AI interview this afternoon...)

heise | Comet für Android: Wie Perplexitys KI-Browser die Google-Suche ersetzen will
Comet von Perplexity gibt es nun auch für Android: Der KI-Browser klickt sich „agentisch“ durchs Web, beantwortet Fragen und E-Mails. Da ist Vertrauen gefragt.

The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper (Robert Channick/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/04/chic…

MS, if I wanted to use COCRAP I would, until I SELECT IT JUST STFU!
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/10/21/microsoft-edge-is-nudging-chatgpt-perplexity-users-to-try-copilot/

Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818355/samsung-tvs-bixby-generative-ai-con…

Samsung brings a generative AI-powered Bixby to its TVs
Samsung Vision AI Companion will let you ask Bixby questions about what’s on screen in real time, powered by Copilot and Perplexity.

@… おもしろそうだからPerplexityで調査してみたけど、実際に効率良くできそうだねえ。
https://www.

Immer wieder merken: Du kannst #KI #LLM Modellen nicht trauen. Dieser Tage halluziniert, nein lügt #Perplexity vor sich hin! Ein Beispiel: Ich wollte einen

Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/811340/perplexity-ai-patent-research-tool

Perplexity’s new AI tool aims to simplify patent research
Perplexity is launching an AI-powered patent research tool that allows you to search for patents using natural language.

Mit KI produktbezogen einkaufen
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=192468

Mit KI produktbezogen einkaufen
Ziel ist es, Online-Shopping persönlicher und angenehmer zu gestalten, statt Nutzer durch endlose Produktlisten zu klicken: Perplexity startet KI-Shopping mit PayPal-Bezahlung. Also die KI kauft ni…

Dass meine Arbeitgeber IP für Benutzeranmeldungen bei kleinanzeigen.de gesperrt ist, wird nicht damit zu tun haben, dass ich perplexity.ai mehrmals darauf angesetzt habe, mir zu Gebrauchtwagenanzeigen die Beschleunigung und Höchstgeschwindigkeiten der Autos rauszusuchen. Oder?

Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product for US users next week in partnership with PayPal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/perplexity-ai-online-shopping-paypal.html

Perplexity AI announces free product to streamline online shopping
Perplexity AI announced it will roll out a free agentic shopping product for U.S. users next week

🎨 Perfect for #AI agents needing grounded web context and research tools demanding trust and freshness
🚀 Enables custom products where developers want complete control over how search data is used
📊 Structured response format eliminates need for complex data parsing and preprocessing steps
🌐

MemLens: Uncovering Memorization in LLMs with Activation Trajectories
Zirui He, Haiyan Zhao, Ali Payani, Mengnan du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20909 https://

MemLens: Uncovering Memorization in LLMs with Activation Trajectories
Large language models (LLMs) are commonly evaluated on challenging benchmarks such as AIME and Math500, which are susceptible to contamination and risk of being memorized. Existing detection methods, which primarily rely on surface-level lexical overlap and perplexity, demonstrate low generalization and degrade significantly when encountering implicitly contaminated data. In this paper, we propose MemLens (An Activation Lens for Memorization Detection) to detect memorization by analyzing the pr…

Perplexity debuts Email Assistant for Gmail and Outlook, which can manage inboxes, schedule meetings, and more, for subscribers of its $200/month Max plan (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Perplexity launches AI email assistant that can manage your Outlook or Gmail inbox for you — but it will cost $200 a month
Perplexity's $200 subscription is gaining a new feature that lets it manage your inbox by drafting replies to threads, scheduling meetings, and labeling emails using a new AI email assistant.

Soberanía tecnológica es no depender de la infraestructura de una empresa que, bien por un accidente, bien por un ataque o porque al dueño se le pone en las gónadas, te puede dejar sin servicio y tú no puedes hacer mšs que gritar a las nubes
https://www.b…

Perplexity so:
17.10.25 Comet ist jetzt für alle kostenlos verfügbar
20.10.25 Ihr kostenloser Zugang könnte bald ablaufen. Danach ist für den Zugriff auf Comet möglicherweise ein kostenpflichtiges Abonnement erforderlich.
So arbeiten Drogendealer. Anfüttern mit kostenlos. Später nur noch gegen Bezahlung.
Dran denken! Die aktuellen KIs sind LLMs. Die können nicht denken. Die machen Fehler. Die halten sich nicht an Vorgaben. Die Technik ist neu und deshalb unsicher, spric…

Snap reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $1.51B vs. $1.49B est., DAUs up 8% to 477M vs. 476M est., and announces a $500M share buyback; SNAP jumps 23% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/snap-q3-earnings-report-2025.html

Snap shares rocket 25% on strong forecast, $400 million Perplexity deal
Perplexity AI will pay the social media company $400 million over 1 year to integrate the AI startup's search features into Snapchat in 2026, Snap said.

Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools; GETY jumps 55% (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/getty-per

Samsung rolls out a Perplexity TV app, which works alongside Samsung's Vision AI Companion, on its 2025 TVs; 2023 and 2024 TV models will get it later this year (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-get-perplex…

How to get Perplexity AI Pro for free on your Samsung TV - and what it can do
The new Perplexity TV app is rolling out to Samsung's 2025 TVs first, with older models getting it later this year.

AI Answer Engine Citation Behavior An Empirical Analysis of the GEO16 Framework
Arlen Kumar, Leanid Palkhouski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10762 https://arx…

AI Answer Engine Citation Behavior An Empirical Analysis of the GEO16 Framework
AI answer engines increasingly mediate access to domain knowledge by generating responses and citing web sources. We introduce GEO-16, a 16 pillar auditing framework that converts on page quality signals into banded pillar scores and a normalized GEO score G that ranges from 0 to 1. Using 70 product intent prompts, we collected 1,702 citations across three engines (Brave Summary, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity) and audited 1,100 unique URLs. In our corpus, the engines differed in the GEO q…

Sources: Amazon sent a cease-and-desist to Perplexity, demanding it to stop letting Comet make purchases on users' behalf, accusing it of computer fraud (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/amazon-…

Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity, SerpApi, and two other data scraping companies, accusing them of unlawfully scraping Google for Reddit data (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perpl…

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.

OpenAI, Alphabet, and Perplexity offering free access to their paid tiers in India suggests the country may be the biggest and safest bet for broad AI adoption (Mihir Sharma/Bloomberg)

Eine Newsguard-Studie zeigt: KI-Chatbots halluzinieren heute fast doppelt so oft wie vor einem Jahr (35 % statt 18 %). Besonders Perplexity und ChatGPT schwächeln, Claude und Gemini stechen positiv heraus. Fazit von Jörg Schieb: #KI ist Werkzeug, aber keine Wahrheitsinstanz. Kritisch prüfen bleibt Pflicht. 👉

Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3 in December; it is expected to be more performant across the board, especially in coding and multimodal generation (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/google-readies-gemini-3-perplexity

Google readies Gemini 3, Perplexity hits its goal
Reporting on Google's next model release and Perplexity's business. Also: AI job moves and some links.

Perplexity launches Search API, giving developers direct access to the same web index that powers the startup's answer engine (Michael Nuñez/Venturebeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/perplexity-launches-massive-search-api-to-take-on-googles-do…

Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools; GETY jumps 55% (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/getty-per

Perplexity struggles to scale its shopping and ad businesses nearly a year after launching ad sales and in-app purchasing, frustrating marketers and merchants (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/perplexitys-commerce-ads-experim…

Perplexity’s Commerce and Ads Experiments Are Stuck in Neutral
Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm at $20 billion—and its penchant for declaring big-ticket acquisition targets like TikTok. But its efforts to build businesses in online shopping and ...

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/2]:
- Slaves to the Law of Large Numbers: An Asymptotic Equipartition Property for Perplexity in Genera...
Tyler Bell, Avinash Mudireddy, Ivan Johnson-Eversoll, Soura Dasgupta, Raghu Mudumbai

1Password CEO David Faugno says the company has crossed $400M in ARR, up from $250M in 2023, as it benefits from a shift in the threat landscape due to AI (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/ryan-reynolds-backed-1password-tops-400…

Password manager backed by Ryan Reynolds, other celebs, hits key revenue metric on AI tail winds
1Password was founded in 2005 and counts IBM, Perplexity AI, Salesforce and the Golden State Warriors among its customers.

Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity, SerpApi, and two other data scraping companies, accusing them of unlawfully scraping Google for Reddit data (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perpl…

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.

Bernstein Analytics enthüllt: KI-Chatbots zitieren am liebsten die #Tagesschau. Der Grund? Öffentlich-rechtliche Inhalte sind für Tech-Konzerne gratis. Wer Bezahlschranken hat, wird ignoriert. (Wen wundert es?) Die #FAZ fragt natürlich : Wer entscheidet hier über ‚Relevanz‘ – Algorithmen oder der Mar…

KI-Chatbots greifen am häufigsten auf tagesschau.de als Quelle zurück
Die Firma Bernstein Analytics hat untersucht, wen ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity und Grok im deutschsprachigen Raum auf häufigsten zitieren. Es ist tagesschau.de. Dafür gibt es einen Grund, den die Erhebung nicht nennt.

Perplexity: Our goal is simple: help you get your work done faster while getting better grades.
Absent-Minded Professor: Obviously, the intended audience here must not be the professors trying to help the students work more slowly and thoughtfully. You know, to actually learn something instead of just getting your work done “faster.”
via:
https://joshbrake.substack.com/p/keep-thinking?publication_id=634571&post_id=174291502

Perplexity struggles to scale its shopping and ad businesses nearly a year after launching ad sales and in-app purchasing, frustrating marketers and merchants (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/perplexitys-commerce-ads-experim…

Perplexity’s Commerce and Ads Experiments Are Stuck in Neutral
Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm at $20 billion—and its penchant for declaring big-ticket acquisition targets like TikTok. But its efforts to build businesses in online shopping and ...

Google partners with Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to Jio 5G users in India for 18 months; Perplexity has a similar deal with Bharti Airtel (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/30/goog

Google partners with Ambani's Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to millions of Jio users in India | TechCrunch
The offer will first roll out to Jio users aged 18 to 25 before expanding to all subscribers nationwide.

Juicebox, whose PeopleGPT helps employers analyze professional profiles to identify qualified candidates, raised $36M, including a $30M Series A led by Sequoia (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/juic

Juicebox raises $30M from Sequoia to revolutionize hiring with LLM-powered search | TechCrunch
The recruiting startup has over 2,500 customers, including recruiters at Perplexity, Ramp and OpenAI.

Researchers detail systemic vulnerabilities in AI agentic browsers, including Perplexity's Comet and Fellou, related to indirect prompt injection attacks (Brave)
https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/

Unseeable prompt injections in screenshots: more vulnerabilities in Comet and other AI browsers | Brave
AI browsers remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks via screenshots and hidden content, allowing attackers to exploit users' authenticated sessions.

Serval, which uses agentic AI models to automate IT service management for clients like Perplexity and Mercor, raised a $47M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/serval-raises-4…

Serval raises $47 million to bring AI agents to IT service management | TechCrunch
Serval is using agentic AI models to automate IT service management, but the company has a unique approach that takes advantage of agentic AI’s powers while avoiding many of its pitfalls.

In an informal survey of 300 Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/at-an-ai-c

At a top AI conference, 300 attendees were asked which startup they would short.
300 founders and investors in the audience at Cerebral Valley were asked which startup valued at more than a billion dollars they would bet against.

WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/whatssapp-…

WhatssApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is banning general purpose chatbots from using its Business API

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says he is "nervous about the size of these investments in these data centres"; he owns stakes in OpenAI, Perplexity, and xAI (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/61ce397b-968c-403e-aecf-16d4b2ff08cd<…