Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of secretly crawling sites despite explicit blocks
Cloudflare is accusing the AI search engine Perplexity of covertly crawling websites, even when site owners have explicitly forbidden access through robots.txt files or firewall rules. According to the company, Perplexity disguises its identity to sidestep restrictions and is violating established internet norms.<br /> The article Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of secretly crawling sites despite explicit blocks appeared first on THE DECODER. [...]
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Perplexity launches 'Computer' AI agent that coordinates 19 models, priced at $200 a month
Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, on Wednesday launched what it calls the most ambitious product in its three-year history: a multi-model agent orchestration platform ca [...]
Perplexity takes its ‘Computer’ AI agent into the enterprise, taking aim at Microsoft and Salesforce
Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, announced on Wednesday at its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference that its multi-model AI agent, Computer, is now available to ente [...]
Cloudflare’s new Dynamic Workers ditch containers to run AI agent code 100x faster
Web infrastructure giant Cloudlflare is seeking to transform the way enterprises deploy AI agents with the open beta release of Dynamic Workers, a new lightweight, isolate-based sandboxing system that [...]
Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again
Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appe [...]
Amazon and Perplexity are fighting over the future of AI shopping
Amazon has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity that demands that the AI startup prevents its Comet browser from making purchases on Amazon, Bloomberg reports. In a blog post responding to Ama [...]
Perplexity sued by Japanese media giants for stealing information and presenting false information
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 "c [...]
Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content
Perplexity is launching a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers that will pay them every time its AI assistants use an article to answer a question, The Wall Street Journal reports. Perplexity is la [...]
The New York Times and Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity over alleged copyright infringement
The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune have filed separate lawsuits against Perplexity over alleged copyright infringement. The Times said it had sent Perplexity several cease-and-desist demands t [...]