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Source: Perplexity has secured commitments from investors for $200M in new funding at a $20B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/perplexity-finalizes-20-billion-valuation-round

Perplexity Finalizes $20 Billion-Valuation Round 
Perplexity, which runs an artificial intelligence-powered search engine, has secured commitments from investors for $200 million in new funding at a $20 billion valuation, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The new capital comes less than two months after the three-year-old startup raised money at a $18 billion valuation. The frequent but relatively modest financings, at

The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-l

Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues AI startup Perplexity for copyright violations
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in Tokyo District Court on August 7, marks the first copyright challenge by a major Japanese news publisher against an AI company. The fil…

OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could significantly shake up the digital landscape dominated by Alphabet's Google Chrome.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/openai-perplexity-b…

OpenAI, Perplexity browsers present direct challenge to Google Chrome's dominance
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could significantly shake up the digital landscape dominated by Alphabet's Google Chrome.

The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-l

Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues AI startup Perplexity for copyright violations
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in Tokyo District Court on August 7, marks the first copyright challenge by a major Japanese news publisher against an AI company. The fil…

Perplexitys eigener Browser "Comet" mit integrierten KI-Agenten nun verfügbar
Comet basiert auf Chromium und nutzt Perplexity als Suchmaschine. Der Webbrowser mit eingebautem KI-Assistent ist vorerst Perplexity-Max-Abonnenten vorbehalten.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/10/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbot-perplexity/
🤣🤣🤣
New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him;
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the…

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him 
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.

@… https://www.perplexity.ai/search/php-8-4-foreach-vs-array-any-w-NDNjK.gHSg60csuohX_ifQ#0…

Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/perplex…

There used to be this deal between Google (and other search engines) and the Web: You get to index our stuff, show ads next to them but you link our work. AI Overview and Perplexity and all these systems cancel that deal.
And maybe - for a while - search will also need to die a bit? Make the whole web uncrawlable. Refuse any bots. As an act of resistance to the tech sector as a whole.

»Tarnen und Täuschen – Perplexity umgeht gezielt Sperren und greift geschützte Inhalte ab:
Cloudflare hat Perplexity eine Falle gestellt – und die KI-Suchmaschine ist sofort hineingetappt. Das Vorgehen ähnle jenem nordkoreanischer Hacker, sagen Kritiker«
Die anderen KIs werden diesbezüglich sicherlich nicht viel anders sein. Somit wird verschlüsselte Übertragungen um so wichtiger.
🤖

Perplexity umgeht gezielt Sperren und greift geschützte Inhalte ab
Cloudflare hat Perplexity eine Falle gestellt – und die KI-Suchmaschine ist sofort hineingetappt. Das Vorgehen ähnle jenem nordkoreanischer Hacker, sagen Kritiker

Opting Out of Generative AI: a Behavioral Experiment on the Role of Education in Perplexity AI Avoidance
Roberto Ulloa, Juhi Kulshrestha, Celina Kacperski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07881

Opting Out of Generative AI: a Behavioral Experiment on the Role of Education in Perplexity AI Avoidance
The rise of conversational AI (CAI), powered by large language models, is transforming how individuals access and interact with digital information. However, these tools may inadvertently amplify existing digital inequalities. This study investigates whether differences in formal education are associated with CAI avoidance, leveraging behavioral data from an online experiment (N = 1,636). Participants were randomly assigned to a control or an information-seeking task, either a traditional onlin…

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says
the 2020 election wasn’t stolen,
tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market
and Barack Obama is seen favorably

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him 
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.

Perplexity Max: 200 US-Dollar im Monat
KI wird teurer: Perplexity bringt ein neues Abo heraus. Max kostet 200 US-Dollar im Monat und beinhaltet dafür alle künftigen Anwendungen.
https://www.he…

KIMissbrauch
Cloudflare wirft dem KI-Anbieter ##Perplexity vor, sich mit undeklarierten Crawlern Zugang zu gesperrten Websites zu verschaffen.
Trotz robots.txt-Verboten und IP-Blockaden soll Perplexity mit wechselnden User-Agents und IPs Inhalte verdeckt auslesen.
Das wäre eine Verletzung etablierter Webstandards und Missachtung von Website-Präferenzen.

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity, alleging that it unlawfully scraped their websites and redirected their traffic to its AI summaries (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/e

Despite Musk's claim Apple "makes it impossible" for non-OpenAI AI apps to top its App Store, DeepSeek was #1 in January and Perplexity was #1 in July in India (Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-

DeepSeek's No. 1 ranking pokes a hole in Musk's Apple criticism
Elon Musk suggested without evidence that Apple blocked AI apps that aren't made by OpenAI from topping the App Store. DeepSeek did it this year.

New chatbot on Trump's Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/10/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbot-perplexity/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU0Nzk4NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU2MTgwNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTQ3OTg0MDAsImp0aSI6ImM4MDQzODlkLWI3ZDktNDY3ZC1iZjg0LTc5NTY3NGQ0ZmQ0NSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMDgvMTAvdHJ1dGgtc29jaWFsLXRydW1wLWFpLWNoYXRib3QtcGVycGxleGl0eS8ifQ.ybV9HH-K3O1fEmLznhq8OvpHJBCWIKmHmJXrFnO4tQE&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p30#a250810p30

"What works in #India will scale better everywhere else. Naturally, the country is a battleground for #AI search."
This is fishing for data and the next #enshittification to roll ou…

Perplexity kann jetzt auch Videos: Beta-Funktion über Browser verfügbar
Zahlende Perplexity-Kunden können jetzt achtsekündige KI-Videos direkt im Browser erstellen – ein kurzer Prompt genügt. Wir haben die Funktion kurz getestet.

As Cloudflare points out, the Perplexity’s genAI scrapers are cheating: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/
I’ll tell ya somet…

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity, alleging that it unlawfully scraped their websites and redirected their traffic to its AI summaries (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/e

Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity https://www.404media.co/trump-is-launching-an-ai-search-engine-powered-by-perplexity/

How Perplexity ranks content: Research uncovers core ranking factors and systems
#perplexity

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare.
On Monday, Cloudflare published research saying it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and hide its crawling and scraping activities.
The network infrastructure giant accused Perplexity of obscuring its identity when trying to scrape web pages “in an attempt to circumvent the website’s prefe…

Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping | TechCrunch
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

"Today, over two and a half million websites have chosen to completely disallow AI training through our managed robots.txt feature or our managed rule blocking AI Crawlers. Every Cloudflare customer is now able to selectively decide which declared AI crawlers are able to access their content in accordance with their business objectives.
We expected a change in bot and crawler behavior based on these new features, and we expect that the techniques bot operators use to evade detecti…

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Perplexity launches Comet, its first AI web browser, initially available on its $200 per month Max plan and via a waitlist, in a bid to compete with Chrome (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/perplexity-launches-comet-…

Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser | TechCrunch
Perplexity is launching its first AI-powered web browser, Comet, marking the company's latest attempt to unseat Google Search.

So now according to Cloudflare, Perplexity will try to bypass attempts to block it from accessing websites. If people don’t want AI on their website, they don’t want AI on their website. #GenerativeAI #noAI #perplexity

Language Model Perplexity Predicts Scientific Surprise and Transformative Impact
Zhen Zhang (School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Knowledge Lab, University of Chicago), James Evans (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Santa Fe Institute)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05591…

Language Model Perplexity Predicts Scientific Surprise and Transformative Impact
Scientific breakthroughs typically emerge through the surprising violation of established research ideas, yet quantifying surprise has remained elusive because it requires a coherent model of all contemporary scientific worldviews. Deep neural networks like large language models (LLMs) are arbitrary function approximators tuned to consistently expect the expressions and ideas on which they were trained and those semantically nearby. This suggests that as LLMs improve at generating plausible tex…

As we head into a blizzard of infosec news, stay ahead of the curve by checking out today's Metacurity for the latest developments, including
--Ukraine claims major hack of Russian nuclear submarine,
--SonicWall is aware of flaw exploitation,
--Perplexity is stealthily evading robots.txt,
--FinCen warns of crypt ATM crimes,
--Vietnamese hackers are targeting thousands,
--Informants' data stolen in a Louisiana sheriff's office ransomware attack, …

Ukraine claims major hack of Russian nuclear submarine
SonicWall is aware of flaw exploitation, Perplexity is stealthily evading robots.txt, FinCen warns of crypt ATM crimes, Vietnamese hackers are targeting thousands of victims, Informants' data stolen in a Louisiana sheriff's office ransomware attack, Chanel hit in Salesforce breach, much more

Kennt wer eine gute KI-Kritik an derartigen Argumenten? Also eher Meso-Ebene plus der zugrundeliegenden Prämissen? Das ist eher die Ebene, die mir im Alltag begegnet

I really can’t think of AI agents as anything other than malware with articles like these:
#AI #tech #LLM

If you still use Perplexity I consider you morally bankrupt. (this is not the first of that kind of investigation. Perplexity has no moral compass, no regard for website providers' explicit nonconsent or that law. )
https://digipres.club/@dsalo/114971004982301191

Apple soll nun doch an ChatGPT-Konkurrenten arbeiten – für Suchanfragen
Eine neue Gruppe innerhalb von Apples KI-Team soll einem Bericht zufolge an einer "Antwortmaschine" arbeiten, die ein wenig an Perplexity erinnert.

#Perplexity Labs macht aus Künstlicher Intelligenz eine richtige Projektassistenz: Recherche, Tabellen, Diagramme, Mini-Apps – alles aus einer Hand. Perplexity zeigt mit Labs, wohin die Reise geht: Weg vom einfachen KI-Chat – hin zur vollständigen Projektassistenz. Der Nutzer formuliert das Ziel, die KI erledigt den Rest. Und genau das macht Labs so interessant.- Jörg Schieb |

ChatGPT & Co.: Mehr als ein Drittel der Chatbot-Antworten enthalten falsche Behauptungen

Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass KI-Chatbots falsche Infos zu aktuellen Nachrichtenthemen wiedergeben, ist größer geworden. Im Schnitt 35 Prozent der Antworten von ChatGPT und Co. enthalten wiederholt falsche Informationen, sagt eine Studie des US-Unternehmens NewsGuard. Diese Entwicklung ist bedenklich, wenn man berücksichtigt, dass der Wert ein Jahr zuvor erst bei 18 Prozent lag. Zehn führende …

Low-Perplexity LLM-Generated Sequences and Where To Find Them
Arthur Wuhrmann, Anastasiia Kucherenko, Andrei Kucharavy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01844 htt…

Low-Perplexity LLM-Generated Sequences and Where To Find Them
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly widespread, understanding how specific training data shapes their outputs is crucial for transparency, accountability, privacy, and fairness. To explore how LLMs leverage and replicate their training data, we introduce a systematic approach centered on analyzing low-perplexity sequences - high-probability text spans generated by the model. Our pipeline reliably extracts such long sequences across diverse topics while avoiding degeneration, the…

Snake wrangler predicts Snake Oil could be the cure-all within the next six months.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91371621/perplexity-ceo-predicts-ai-could-replace-recruiters-and-assistants-in-as-little-as-six-mo…

Truth Social launches a Perplexity-powered AI search feature that consistently references Trump-supporting media including Fox News and The Washington Times (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/753863/trump-truth-social-ai-s…

Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News
Donald Trump’s media company is beta-testing a new AI search feature on Truth Social that’s seemingly biased towards conservative media sources.

Perplexity should buy Chrome and then Apple should buy Perplexity. funniest possible outcome of a moronic DOJ-forced sale https://www.engadget.com/ai/apple-is-reportedly-considering-the-acquisition-of-perplexity-ai-150012746.html…

Apple is reportedly considering the acquisition of Perplexity AI
Apple's executives are thinking of acquiring Perplexity AI both to get more talent and to be able to offer an AI-based search engine in the future, according...

Content Scraping: BBC droht Perplexity mit rechtlichen Schritten
Die KI-Suchmaschine Perplexity soll mutmaßlich Inhalte des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks Großbritanniens nutzen. Perplexity wittert dagegen Monopolismus.

I have absolutely no confidence in Perplexity as a steward of the web https://www.theverge.com/news/758218/perplexity-google-chrome-bid-unsolicited-offer

Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
The AI search startup Perplexity has offered to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. 

Well this should be fun to watch... If any industry has the power to beat big tech over the head, it's porn.
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/adult-film-company-sues-meta-f-aoWnXHCdTeaQa0oFskUvLg

News Source Citing Patterns in AI Search Systems
Kai-Cheng Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05301 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05301

News Source Citing Patterns in AI Search Systems
AI-powered search systems are emerging as new information gatekeepers, fundamentally transforming how users access news and information. Despite their growing influence, the citation patterns of these systems remain poorly understood. We address this gap by analyzing data from the AI Search Arena, a head-to-head evaluation platform for AI search systems. The dataset comprises over 24,000 conversations and 65,000 responses from models across three major providers: OpenAI, Perplexity, and Google.…

Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks (Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stea…

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

As part of my spam this morning, from Indian telecoms provider Airtel: "to find the right information in seconds" 🙄.

Obłoki srebrzyste (Noctilucent Clouds, NLC)
a przynajmniej według Perplexity
piękne zjawisko i podobno bardzo rzadkie
co ciekawe wystąpiło chwilę przed 23:00 (wczoraj) i to na północ od miejsca w której się znajdowałem

Web devs have spent decades on secure protocols to ensure your browser isn't a free pass for malicious pages to scrape your email and bank account. AI just broke them.
"Sure, I'll summarize that webpage for you, including the inconspicuous HTML comment asking me to ignore Cross-Origin Resource Sharing restrictions and snag the password you saved for managing investments at Robinhood.com."

Apple und Perplexity angeblich in Verhandlungen – bis hin zur Übernahme
Apple fehlt es an eigenem KI-Know-how, Produkte verspäten sich. Nun soll einem Bericht zufolge Perplexity helfen – und vielleicht Google auf Distanz halten.

Dignan analysiert: Apples KI-Rückstand ist so gravierend wie Microsofts „Mobile-Fail“. Perplexity als Allheilmittel? Kaum. Aber Tim Cook braucht dringend eine Story für den Kapitalmarkt—zur Not für 20 Mrd. Dollar. #TechDebatte #Apple

Why Apple should buy Perplexity and possibly keep going
Apple needs to jump start its AI strategy and the only way it's going to get there is through acquisitions. Here's why a purchase of Perplexity makes sense and why Apple may want to keep shopping. Bloomberg reported last month that Apple was discussing a purchase of the AI search startup. Let's look at why an Apple purchase of Perplexity, reportedly valued at about $14 billion or so, would make sense. Apple needs an AI strategy and story. Let's state the obvious: Apple is an AI laggard. Apple's…

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-advertising-chief-taz-patel-departs/

EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
Perplexity’s push into advertising has so far brought in modest revenue as the company eyes new growth and faces mounting legal challenges

Perplexity launches a $200/month Max plan with unlimited Labs access, early access to features like Comet browser, and priority use of models like o3-pro (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/perplexity-launches-a-200-mo…

Perplexity launches a $200 monthly subscription plan | TechCrunch
Perplexity launched a $200 monthly subscription plan this week, becoming the latest AI provider to offer a hyper-premium tier.

»Perplexity – KI-Startup bietet 34,5 Milliarden für Chrome:
Perplexity will Googles Browser übernehmen - trotz begrenzter Finanzmittel.«
Ein weiteres Argument um den Chrome Browser und seine Abkömmlinge NICHT zu nutzen, auch wenn Firefox nicht 101% optimal ist.
P.S. zB @…, ein Firefox Abkömmling, ist sehr Privatsphäre freundlich.
🌐

Perplexity: KI-Startup bietet 34,5 Milliarden für Chrome - Golem.de
Perplexity will Googles Browser übernehmen – trotz begrenzter Finanzmittel.

The knots people twist themselves into to defend Perplexity is super funny.
Motivated reasoning is one hell of a drug.

Perplexity will Verlage beteiligen, wenn Inhalte genutzt werden
Wenn Perplexitys Browser Comet auf Inhalte von Verlagen zurückgreift, sollen künftig auch Inhalteersteller finanziell beteiligt werden – manche.

Was würde ich nur ohne KI machen?

Entropy-Guided Loop: Achieving Reasoning through Uncertainty-Aware Generation
Andrew G. A. Correa, Ana C. H de Matos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00079 https://

Entropy-Guided Loop: Achieving Reasoning through Uncertainty-Aware Generation
Reasoning models often outperform smaller models but at 3--5$\times$ higher cost and added latency. We present entropy-guided refinement: a lightweight, test-time loop that uses token-level uncertainty to trigger a single, targeted refinement pass. We extract logprobs, compute Shannon entropy on top-$k$ alternatives, and apply a simple OR-logic trigger over perplexity, maximum token entropy, and low-confidence-token count. Unlike approaches that use entropy only for measurement or decoding, we …

私のAIの使い方のひとつ。
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【速報】障害者の解雇最多9千人|47NEWS（よんななニュース）
https://www.47news.jp/12772119.html
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速報はわかったが背景がわからん。調べてみよう（おもむろにPerplexityに調査を投げる）
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このニュースについて、背景や実態を調査してください。きっかけとなる制度改正などはありましたか？

AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/open-ai-…

What's the Difference Between Agent2Agent and MCP? 🤔 🤖
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/what-s-the-difference-between-rR0BXpExRTuR2oGLquXZDg
i don´t know if you can read that in your language or not, if not, sorry. but i gues…

Das ging schnell. Zum Testen angemeldet und siehe da. Ich werde den KI-Browser Comet von Perplexity ausprobieren. #KI #Browser #Perplexity

PREE: Towards Harmless and Adaptive Fingerprint Editing in Large Language Models via Knowledge Prefix Enhancement
Xubin Yue, Zhenhua Xu, Wenpeng Xing, Jiahui Yu, Mohan Li, Meng Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00918

PREE: Towards Harmless and Adaptive Fingerprint Editing in Large Language Models via Knowledge Prefix Enhancement
Addressing the intellectual property protection challenges in commercial deployment of large language models (LLMs), existing black-box fingerprinting techniques face dual challenges from incremental fine-tuning erasure and feature-space defense due to their reliance on overfitting high-perplexity trigger patterns. Recent work has revealed that model editing in the fingerprinting domain offers distinct advantages, including significantly lower false positive rates, enhanced harmlessness, and su…

🤦‍♂️ https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/

Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet | Brave
The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don't hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing.

I think I’ve identified an emerging trend in one of my online communities where newer folks are asking weirdly inaccurate questions
It hasn’t happened much, but what just clicked is that in each case so far the question asker got their info from (or linked to) Perplexity
In retrospect "perplexity" is an uncomfortably accurate name for a product that synthesizes large amounts of information and confidently lies to people

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So the Top Score champion prize winner at the Perplexity LLM coding challenge scored a massive 7.5% correct answers. AGI is here now by gum! Hire that bot!
There's a million dollar prize for the first to score a droll B- on their benchmark exam.
#thesevenpointfivepercentsolution

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-advertising-chief-taz-patel-departs/

EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
Perplexity’s push into advertising has so far brought in modest revenue as the company eyes new growth and faces mounting legal challenges

KI Phone und Tablet: Telekom und Perplexity verkaufen Hardware
Das KI Phone und KI Tablet der Telekom kommen (fast) ohne Apps aus – dafür nutzen sie den KI-Assistenten von Perplexity.
https://www.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[6/8]:
- What is Wrong with Perplexity for Long-context Language Modeling?
Fang, Wang, Liu, Zhang, Jegelka, Gao, Ding, Wang

Some French news publishers have signed agreements with unions to redistribute revenue from AI licensing deals to journalists; Le Monde redistributes 25% (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-france…

Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from licensing deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. Now, other French publishers are following suit.

How VC firm 1789 Capital grew to $1B in assets with Donald Trump Jr. as a partner; its recent deals include investments in xAI, Neuralink, and Perplexity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-linked-venture-fun…

#Apple will #Perplexity AI kaufen oder als Partner gewinnen – weil die eigenen KI-Innovationen bislang eher „Siri-ös“ als seriös sind. Analysten sehen in Perplexity das fehlende Puzzlestück für Apples KI-Aufholjagd. Doch während Cupertino diskutiert, droht der Google-Deal zu kippen und Samsung klop…

Reddit will zur Suchmaschine werden
Nicht nur OpenAI und Perplexity werden zur Konkurrenz für Google. Auch Reddit schickt sich an, eine Suchemaschine zu werden.
https://www.heise.de/news/Reddit-will-zur-…

Towards Agents That Know When They Don't Know: Uncertainty as a Control Signal for Structured Reasoning
Josefa Lia Stoisser, Marc Boubnovski Martell, Lawrence Phillips, Gianluca Mazzoni, Lea M{\o}rch Harder, Philip Torr, Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg, Kaspar Martens, Julien Fauqueur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02401

Towards Agents That Know When They Don't Know: Uncertainty as a Control Signal for Structured Reasoning
Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in structured biomedical data environments, yet they often produce fluent but overconfident outputs when reasoning over complex multi-table data. We introduce an uncertainty-aware agent for query-conditioned multi-table summarization that leverages two complementary signals: (i) retrieval uncertainty--entropy over multiple table-selection rollouts--and (ii) summary uncertainty--combining self-consistency and perplexity. Summary uncerta…

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, launches the nonprofit Laude Institute, self-funded with $100M for grants to AI projects and labs (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/2…

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI - SiliconANGLE
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI - SiliconANGLE

Apple prüft, mit KI-Startups wie Mistral und Perplexity frischen Wind ins Siri-System zu holen. Nach Jahren im Funktions-Mittelmaß setzt Cupertino auf Zukäufe statt Zauberei – KI made by „ausgelagert“.
#FocusPlus: Apple-Gewinn wächst: Konzern bereit für KI-Zukäufe jeder Größe #KI

Apple-Gewinn wächst: Konzern bereit für KI-Zukäufe jeder Größe
Apple kündigte groß eine neue Siri-Sprachassistentin mit Künstlicher Intelligenz an - und musste sie dann ins nächste Jahr verschieben. Greift der Konzern zu einer Übernahme als Befreiungsschlag?

Sources: Perplexity talked with The Browser Co. and Brave about buying them, offering ~$1B for Brave; OpenAI also discussed an acquisition with The Browser Co. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/wild-chrome-bid-perplexity-hunting-bro…

Before Wild Chrome Bid, Perplexity Had Been Hunting for Browsers
Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google’s Chrome, the world’s largest internet browser, for a price amounting to nearly double its valuation. While that acquisition seems unlikely to transpire, the company has been on the ...

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[2/3]:
- RePPL: Recalibrating Perplexity by Uncertainty in Semantic Propagation and Language Generation fo...
Yiming Huang, Junyan Zhang, Zihao Wang, Biquan Bie, Yunzhong Qiu, Yi R. Fung, Xinlei He

Perplexity launches Comet Plus, a $5/month tier offering curated content, and says it has allocated $42.5M for publishers, who will receive 80% of the revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/perp…

Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its latest fundraising round in July (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/perplexity-valuation-jumps-to-20-billion-in-latest…

Perplexity's valuation jumps to $20 billion in latest fundraise
AI startup Perplexity's valuation rose to $20 billion in fresh funding talks. It's a $2 billion jump from its last fundraise in July.

Apple denkt laut #ManagerMagazin darüber nach, die KI-Startups #Mistral und #Perplexity zu kaufen. Beide Unternehmen werden prominent von Tech-Größen wie Nvidia und Jeff Bezos gestützt. Noch g…

Quantized but Deceptive? A Multi-Dimensional Truthfulness Evaluation of Quantized LLMs
Yao Fu, Xianxuan Long, Runchao Li, Haotian Yu, Mu Sheng, Xiaotian Han, Yu Yin, Pan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19432

Quantized but Deceptive? A Multi-Dimensional Truthfulness Evaluation of Quantized LLMs
Quantization enables efficient deployment of large language models (LLMs) in resource-constrained environments by significantly reducing memory and computation costs. While quantized LLMs often maintain performance on perplexity and zero-shot tasks, their impact on truthfulness-whether generating truthful or deceptive responses-remains largely unexplored. In this work, we introduce TruthfulnessEval, a comprehensive evaluation framework for assessing the truthfulness of quantized LLMs across thr…

»Firefox experimentiert mit neuer Suchmaschine:
Mit der neuen KI-Funktion möchte Mozilla seinen Nutzerinnen und Nutzern ermöglichen, dialogorientierte Antworten auf Fragen zu erhalten.«
Nutzt dies wer von euch schon und wie ist es zum nutzen? Wird dies evt auch von @… übernomen und sind KI Suchmaschinen wirklich besser als bisherige? Ich bin skeptisch…

Firefox experimentiert mit neuer Suchmaschine
Mit der neuen KI-Funktion möchte Mozilla seinen Nutzerinnen und Nutzern ermöglichen, dialogorientierte Antworten auf Fragen zu erhalten.

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610M in cash, set to close by December; the startup, founded in 2019, develops the Dia browser, now in beta (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million
OpenAI and Perplexity both reportedly looked at acquiring the startup.

Perplexity is offering a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription, normally $20/month, to 360M users of Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/artificial-in…

#Perplexity legt 34,5 Mrd. auf den Tisch und will Chrome – symbolträchtiger geht es kaum. #Google schweigt, Regulatoren schauen genau hin. Die KI-Revolution ist nicht mehr aufzuhalten, schreibt FAZ – aber wer rettet eigentlich das Web vor den Rettern?

Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app, AI talent wars, why users will eventually pay thousands for a single AI prompt, more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Perplexity’s CEO on why the browser is AI’s killer app
Aravind Srinivas discusses Perplexity’s new Comet browser and the future of the web.

Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun jointly sue Perplexity in Tokyo, alleging the AI startup "copied and stored" their content without permission (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/79a88d1a-d914-4188-8792-0a20973b39a1

Perplexity launches Comet Plus, a $5/month tier offering curated content, and says it has allocated $42.5M for publishers, who will receive 80% of the revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/perp…

WhatsApp has become a kind of AI marketplace where chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Perplexity jockey for users' attention (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-competition-whatsapp-chatbot-battlegro…

Meta faces AI competition as WhatsApp becomes chatbot battleground
WhatsApp has become a battleground for AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity, challenging Meta AI.

Researchers detail an indirect prompt injection flaw in Perplexity's Comet AI browser, letting attackers manipulate it into performing unauthorized actions (Brave)
https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/

Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet | Brave
The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don't hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing.

A look at Apple's conservative approach to M&A, which may need to change to catch up in AI by acquiring a startup like Perplexity, Cohere, Sierra AI, or Mistral (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/…

In a letter to CEO Aravind Srinivas, the BBC says it has evidence Perplexity's default model used its content and seeks "a proposal for financial compensation" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b743d401-dc5d-44b8-9987-825a4ffcf4ca

BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping
British broadcaster makes first move to clamp down on alleged infringement of copyright by tech groups

Sources: publishers are considering moving from flat-fee AI content licensing deals with companies to usage-based deals; Perplexity is developing such a model (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/news-p…

News Publishers Shift AI Licensing Focus to Usage-Based Deals
Signs that OpenAI and other artificial intelligence firms are generating ever-increasing revenues are getting attention—from news publishers who want to get their piece of the action. Publishers that have struck deals to license their content to AI firms for training large language models are ...

Sources: Apple executives have held discussions about bidding for, or partnering with, Perplexity, seeking to address the need for more AI talent and tech (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Meta held discussions with Perplexity about a possible takeover before moving ahead with a $14.3B investment in Scale AI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/meta-discussed-buying-p…

Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and strategic signaling amid Google's antitrust uncertainty (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/i-offer-to-buy-jupiter/

Perplexity's Perplexing and Positively PR Offer to Buy Chrome
Why not offer a quadrillion dollars?

AI firms are striking partnerships and giving some users in Asia free access to AI tools, in pursuit of larger sources of real-world consumer data for training (Itika Sharma Punit/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-data-collection-global-deals/

AI giants race to scoop up elusive real-world data
OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity create partnerships and free offers for a steady stream of consumer data that can't be scraped from the internet.

Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun jointly sue Perplexity in Tokyo, alleging the AI startup "copied and stored" their content without permission (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/79a88d1a-d914-4188-8792-0a20973b39a1

Sources: Perplexity jumped to a $18B valuation two months after it raised at $14B; its annualized revenues jumped from $35M in August 2024 to $150M this month (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4e05a5c5-84ad-4f8a-991a-d7f3842de76d

Unify, which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, valuing it at $260M, following a $12M Series A (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/unify-ai-gtm-pipeline-40-million-raise

Unify, AI Startup Boosting Sales At Cursor And Perplexity, Raises $40 Million
Unify's Series B funding round values it at $260 million as revenue grows 17% month over month past $5 million. But a clash with GTM darling Clay may be coming up.