Amazon sends legal threats to Perplexity over agentic browsing
Amazon won’t allow agents on its site that don’t identify themselves as such. Perplexity is not pleased.
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Perplexity strikes multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images
Perplexity’s agreement with Getty appears to legitimize some of the startup’s previous use of Getty’s stock photos. Perplexity came under fire last year for a series of plagiarism accusations from several news organizations.
The glaring security risks with AI browser agents
New AI browsers from OpenAI and Perplexity promise to increase user productivity, but they also come with increased security risks.
OpenAI’s Atlas is more about ChatGPT than the web
OpenAI’s new browser is a surface for the company to distribute ChatGPT and develop new AI features rather than improving core web experience.
Mozilla’s Firefox adds Perplexity’s AI answer engine as a new search option
The integration offers conversational, cited answers instead of traditional links and follows positive feedback from earlier tests in select markets. Perplexity will expand to mobile soon.
Perplexity’s Comet AI browser now free; Max users get new ‘background assistant’
AI search startup Perplexity is making its new Comet browser available to everyone in the world for free as it works to position the product against big browsers and search engines. For certain paid subscribers, the startup has also launched a new ‘background assistant’ to handle multiple tasks via Comet.
PayPal and Venmo are giving out Comet invites and free Perplexity Pro subscriptions
The arrangement is part of a new partnership between PayPal and the AI provider, which benefits both companies in different ways.
Perplexity now supports live earnings call transcripts for Indian stocks
AI startup Perplexity is augmenting its Finance dashboard with the ability to transcribe Indian public companies’ quarterly earnings calls live, as well as show schedules for post-results conference calls.
Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources
The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on the iOS and Android apps planned for “the near future.”
Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it
In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn’t a simple matter.