Cybersecurity firm Cloudflare is accusing Perplexity AI of employing tactics to skirt websites’ no-crawl rules. Writing on its blog Monday (Aug. 4), the company said it had gotten complaints from customers who had barred Perplexity scraping bots through the settings in their sites’ robots.txt files...
Perplexity AI, the generative AI search startup, has secured $100 million in new capital, boosting its valuation to $18 billion, Bloomberg reported. The deal extends a recent funding round that had previously valued the company at $14 billion and highlights the continued enthusiasm among investors for...
Apple is reportedly facing pressure to make a major acquisition amid its AI troubles. As Bloomberg News reported Monday (July 14), investors are concerned by a slump in share prices that has wiped out more than $630 billion in Apple’s market value this year and frustrated with the...
Perplexity has introduced Comet, its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered web browser. “Comet transforms entire browsing sessions into single, seamless interactions, collapsing complex workflows into fluid conversations,” the company wrote on its blog Wednesday (July 9). According to the post, the browser lets users answer questions, and...
May 13, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon herald the biggest internet shake-up since dial-up gave way to WiFi. With Perplexity AI in talks to reach a $14 billion valuation as it seeks to launch its own browser, Comet, to compete with tech giants like Google, AI might already be poised to do to traditional internet and information […]
September 11, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) search startup Perplexity AI has reportedly secured $200 million in new funding. The new funding values the company at $20 billion, according to multiple media accounts late Wednesday (Sept 10). The company’s financing was initially reported by The Information, which cited sources familiar with the matter. That report noted that Perplexity has […]
August 05, 2025
Cybersecurity firm Cloudflare is accusing Perplexity AI of employing tactics to skirt websites’ no-crawl rules. Writing on its blog Monday (Aug. 4), the company said it had gotten complaints from...
July 18, 2025
Perplexity AI, the generative AI search startup, has secured $100 million in new capital, boosting its valuation to $18 billion, Bloomberg reported. The deal extends a recent funding round that had...
July 14, 2025
Apple is reportedly facing pressure to make a major acquisition amid its AI troubles. As Bloomberg News reported Monday (July 14), investors are concerned by a slump in share prices that has wiped...