Founders: Aravind Srinivas (CEO), Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski Launched: 2022 Headquarters: San Francisco Funding: $1.4 billion (PitchBook) Valuation: $9 billion (PitchBook) Key ...

Another day, another instance of AI companies purportedly engaging in copyright infringement. Two Japanese media groups, Nikkei and the Asahi Shimbun, are suing Perplexity for illicitly having "copied ...

Google’s antitrust remedy trial started this week, and the Department of Justice has produced several witnesses to testify about how Google’s stranglehold on search has slowed their innovation. On day ...

Perplexity has long been accused of deliberately bypassing anti-scraping measures to retrieve web content. While the company has historically dismissed these accusations as disingenuous or ...

We take you through what exactly Perplexity is, how it works, what sets it apart from ChatGPT and other gen AI tools -- and about some of the legal battles it's facing. Barbara is a tech writer ...

It’s no secret that Google Search is in a weird place right now. The regular search experience has seen better days, with ads and unhelpful results making the search engine feel far less helpful than ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anisha Sircar is a journalist covering tech, finance and society. Perplexity AI launched "Comet Plus," a $5/month subscription, ...

Reddit has sued Perplexity and data scrapers, accusing them of illegally stealing its data. In the lawsuit, Reddit detailed a trap that it says Perplexity fell straight into. It was the digital ...

Amazon has sent Perplexity a cease and desist letter, requesting it stop allowing people to use its AI agents to buy things. Amazon has fired warning shots across the bow of AI agents. Specifically, ...