Reading up on Perplexity

Perplexity launches Brain, a self-improving memory system that builds a context graph from agent work and refines it overnight, boosting correctness by 25% and cutting costs by 13%.

Perplexity introduces Search as Code (SaC), an architecture that exposes search stack components as programmable SDK primitives for AI agents to compose via generated Python code.

Perplexity open-sources Bumblebee, a read-only scanner that checks developer machines for risky packages, extensions, and AI tool configs during supply-chain incidents.

Google's shift to AI-generated search summaries threatens the ad-revenue web model by extracting content without sending traffic back to publishers.

A Stanford senior describes how ChatGPT transformed campus culture, enabling widespread cheating and shifting focus from education to wealth-building.

Perplexity launches Personal Computer for Mac, enabling local AI agents that work across files, apps, and the web with continuous autonomous operation.

Perplexity launches Perplexity Health in the US, a private AI health hub with data dashboards and specialized agents, competing with Microsoft and OpenAI.

Perplexity launches 'Personal Computer' — an always-on AI assistant with local file access, approval controls, and a kill switch, running on a compact desktop.

Perplexity announced a Personal Computer that runs its agentic AI locally on a Mac mini, combining cloud sub-agents with local file access.

Perplexity is adding Skills markdown-based reusable workflow instructions to its Computer platform and testing a Final Pass document review feature.

Perplexity is developing a Mac Messages connector for its Comet browser and testing a usage-credits system for Pro users to buy extra capacity without upgrading.

The article provides a technical deep-dive into Perplexity's agentic browser Comet, detailing its dual-channel communication, hard boundaries, and page representation for AI interaction.

OpenAI is testing intent-based ads and affiliate commerce in ChatGPT, with potential to become a $10B+ business if it builds effective measurement and avoids compromising answer quality.

The author argues that data is the only sustainable competitive advantage for AI products, using Cursor's coding-agent success and a quadrant analysis of adoption vs. technical complexity to make the case.

Amazon faces a dilemma between blocking external AI shopping agents like OpenAI's Instant Checkout and partnering with them, as the company risks losing control over e-commerce transactions to these agents.

Shopify enables merchants to sell products directly through AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot in its winter Editions update.

The New York Times sued AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging its AI search tool illegally reproduces copyrighted news content.

Perplexity launches a free AI shopping assistant that remembers user preferences and enables direct purchases via PayPal, targeting holiday shoppers.

The author argues that the traditional search index moat is largely gone because AI assistants like ChatGPT use multi-hop reasoning across multiple sources, hiding individual search failures.

Perplexity introduces memory features for its AI assistant, allowing it to remember user preferences and conversations across models for more personalized responses.

Perplexity's global app downloads dropped 80% over six weeks, suggesting its earlier growth was largely fueled by paid marketing rather than organic user acquisition.