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Bixby bekommt neues Leben eingehaucht – mit KI von Perplexity
Samsung will seinem eigenen Sprachassistenten Bixby neues Leben einhauchen: Dabei hilft jedoch nicht Google mit Gemini, sondern der Mitbewerber Perplexity.

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

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity are paying to gain access to the nonprofit’s projects, allowing them to use Wikipedia for AI training.

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity are paying to gain access to the nonprofit’s projects, allowing them to use Wikipedia for AI training.

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-…

Wikipedia: Verträge mit Mistral, Perplexity & Co. für KI-Trainingszugriff
Lange haben KI-Firmen für das KI-Training auf Wikipedia-Inhalte zugegriffen und dort die Serverlast steigen lassen. Nun nutzen immer mehr eine Alternative.

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.

From a pragmatic standpoint I get Wikimedia making deals with AI companies: They will scrape anyways, this way you might get some money.
But it still _feels_ off. Telling all volunteers "you are working for Microsoft/Perplexity/etc for free now" _feels_ wrong.

Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on research tools, part of a push to add business customers, after launching Comet on Android (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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 „halluziniert wie ein Weltmeister“, Le Chat ist „europäisch brav“, und CapCut macht 60-Sekunden-Reels, die eher remixen als erzählen. Ich nutze KI-Tools intensiv – aber nicht als Orakel. Mein KI-Tools 2025 - ein Jahresrückblick mit Augenzwinkern. 🔗 https://stefanpfeiffer.blog/2026/01/07

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.

To Perplexity AI: Short-term, the money may be in implantable visual prostheses for the blind. Longer-term, the money may be in training and support for noninvasive visual prostheses for the blind. Microsoft Windows vs Linux, Neuralink Blindsight vs The vOICe. https://www.perplexity.ai/s…

OpenAI and Perplexity, armed with significant AI capabilities, have targeted the shopping domain. And have run into many problems around data access and semantics.
This raises three thoughts:
First, companies which are bullish about AI “changing everything”, are stumbling in maybe the most traditional, mundane domain: shopping. This doesn’t inspire confidence in their technology.
1/5
#ai

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.

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…

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 …

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.…

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.

#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.

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-…

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<…

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.

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/

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 …

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…

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-…

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 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…

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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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)

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.

NYT reporter John Carreyrou and five other writers sue xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Perplexity, accusing them of pirating their books to train AI (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/n

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.

As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/amazon-faces-a-dilemma-fight…

Amazon faces 'leader's dilemma' — fight AI shopping bots or join them
Agents like OpenAI's Instant Checkout and Perplexity's Instant Buy threaten to reshape the e-commerce landscape.

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.