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Samsung Galaxy S26: Perplexity erhält eigenes Hotword „Hey Plex“
Samsung setzt künftig auf ein „Multi-Agenten-KI-Ökosystem“ und integriert neben Bixby und Gemini auch Perplexity. Der Chatbot erhält sogar ein eigenes Hotword.

Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying "Hey Plex" or with a physical helper button (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/samsung-is-add

Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI for its upcoming S26 series
Samsung says Perplexity's AI agent will be integrated with Galaxy AI in its upcoming flagships.

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.

Statt Google: Perplexity oder ChatGPT.
Eine klare Antwort statt zehn Links. Bequem? Ja. Verlässlich? Nicht garantiert.
Die KI erklärte mir, das ZDF habe X verlassen. Klang logisch – war falsch.
KI sammelt Informationen. Aber sie bewertet keine journalistische Qualität.
Warum Tempo kein Ersatz für Prüfung ist – in #60Sekunden.
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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

The Diffusion Duality, Chapter II: $\Psi$-Samplers and Efficient Curriculum
Justin Deschenaux, Caglar Gulcehre, Subham Sekhar Sahoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21185 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21185 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21185
arXiv:2602.21185v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Uniform-state discrete diffusion models excel at few-step generation and guidance due to their ability to self-correct, making them preferred over autoregressive or Masked diffusion models in these settings. However, their sampling quality plateaus with ancestral samplers as the number of steps increases. We introduce a family of Predictor-Corrector (PC) samplers for discrete diffusion that generalize prior methods and apply to arbitrary noise processes. When paired with uniform-state diffusion, our samplers outperform ancestral sampling on both language and image modeling, achieving lower generative perplexity at matched unigram entropy on OpenWebText and better FID/IS scores on CIFAR10. Crucially, unlike conventional samplers, our PC methods continue to improve with more sampling steps. Taken together, these findings call into question the assumption that Masked diffusion is the inevitable future of diffusion-based language modeling. Beyond sampling, we develop a memory-efficient curriculum for the Gaussian relaxation training phase, reducing training time by 25% and memory by 33% compared to Duo while maintaining comparable perplexity on OpenWebText and LM1B and strong downstream performance. We release code, checkpoints, and a video-tutorial on: https://s-sahoo.com/duo-ch2
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Angst vor Vertrauensverlust: Perplexity verzichtet auf Werbung
Während der Konkurrent OpenAI in ChatGPT Werbung testet, schafft Perplexity in seinem Chatbot Anzeigen wieder ab. Diese untergrüben das Vertrauen der Nutzer.

Perplexity's retreat from ads signals a strategic shift as it recognizes its product is not for a mass audience and expects growth to come from enterprise sales (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-ads-shift-search-google/

Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

Perplexity's retreat from ads signals a strategic shift as it recognizes its product is not for a mass audience and expects growth to come from enterprise sales (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-ads-shift-search-google/

Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

Ich nutze meist Perplexity oder ChatGPT statt klassischer Suchmaschinen. Schnell, kompakt, bequem. Aber auch fehleranfällig. Ein Blick auf Chancen, Grenzen und die Frage, wie viel wir Antwortmaschinen wirklich überlassen können und sollten. #LLM #KIAgenten

Perplexity-Antwort statt Google-Suche: Flüssig geantwortet, aber ob alles stimmt?
Ich nutze meist Perplexity oder ChatGPT statt klassischer Suchmaschinen. Schnell, kompakt, bequem. Aber auch fehleranfällig. Halluzinationen verschwinden nicht einfach, nur weil die Antworten souve…

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.

heise | KI zu Befehl: So kontrollieren Sie mit Künstlicher Intelligenz Ihren Mac
ChatGPT, Perplexity und Claude steuern auf Wunsch Apps und sogar macOS. Ein Überblick, wie sich der Mac schon jetzt mit KI-Tools bedienen lässt.

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.

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.

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.

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…

Run your own local chat on your laptop. Plus add web search like Perplexity. I do this on my Mac to to save a few AI DC BTUs and to learn stuff based on real web pages rather than hallucinated LLMs.
•⁠ ⁠Run your own chat: https://carlosvaz.com/posts/running-ll

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.

KI Agenten - sooooo tollll 🤪
Ein KI Einsatz ist einem Investor teuer gekommen. Nick Davidov ließ #KI Assistent #Claude den Laptop seiner Frau aufräumen. Dabei wurde ein Ordner mit allen #Fotos der vergan…

KI-Investor lässt die KI den Laptop seiner Frau aufräumen – und löscht dabei alle Fotos
Perplexity-Investor Nick Davidov bittet Anthropics Claude Cowork um Hilfe – und lästert über die Konkurrenz, als das Vorhaben aus dem Ruder läuft

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.
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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 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.

KI-Übersichten: Medienwächter nehmen Google und Perplexity ins Visier
Der Aufstieg der KI-Antwortmaschinen ruft Regulierer auf den Plan. Gleich zwei Landesmedienanstalten haben Verfahren gegen Google und Perplexity eingeleitet.

Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue advertising, which it introduced in 2024, phasing out ads late last year over fears it would erode user trust (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6eec07a5-34a8-4f78-a9ed-93ab4263d43c

Perplexity AI: "Musk has been careful to set realistic expectations. Initial vision would resemble "early Nintendo graphics" or "Atari graphics"—pixelated and low-resolution—but would improve over time as the brain adapts to the neural signals." https://www.perp…

Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue advertising, which it introduced in 2024, phasing out ads late last year over fears it would erode user trust (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6eec07a5-34a8-4f78-a9ed-93ab4263d43c

People who say the current generation of generative AI is nothing / pure snake oil and hypegrift are wrong. True, ChatGPT is pretty much slop, but instances like Grok Expert and Perplexity Pro consistently produce meaningful, correct results in less time than it would take to manually comb the Internet for the information. Claude Code and Cursor can radically accelerate certain software development, especially in the hands of someone who can already write code and redirect the model when it&…

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

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…

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…

Perplexity signs a deal with Microsoft; sources say the $750M, three-year commitment will let Perplexity deploy AI models through Microsoft's Foundry service (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29…

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.

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

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.