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Perplexity Explains Why It’s Limiting Usage for Some Pro Accounts

The AI search engine has found fraudulent promo codes being used to access its paid tier.

By James Peckham
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Is Perplexity Better Than Google Search? I Switched for a Week to Find Out

In a bid to become less reliant on Google, I swapped the popular search engine for an AI alternative, Perplexity. Here's what worked for me—and what didn't.

By Alan Bradley
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Use Perplexity? Lawsuit Accuses It of Sharing Personal Data With Google and Meta Without Permission

The lawsuit claims that Perplexity incorporated ad trackers such as Facebook Meta Pixel, Google Ads, and Google DoubleClick into its code, which would share information with Meta and Google without consent.

By Will McCurdy
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Judge Orders Perplexity to Block Its AI Agents from Placing Orders on Amazon

Under the preliminary injunction, Perplexity must stop its AI agents from placing orders on Amazon and destroy all the website data the AI agents have collected thus far.

By Jibin Joseph
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Perplexity Rolls Out a Free AI Shopping Tool With PayPal Instant Buy Support

Perplexity says its AI-assisted shopping results won't favor advertisers and will instead show products that match each user's needs and preferences.

By Jibin Joseph
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Perplexity's Comet Is Now on Android, Bringing AI Browser Wars to Mobile

Perplexity says it redesigned how Comet works for Android as it didn't want to 'just force a desktop experience onto mobile.'

By James Peckham
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Amazon Sues Perplexity As AI Browser War Escalates

Amazon accuses Perplexity of using shady tactics with its Comet browser. Perplexity says Amazon is a bully that's trying to 'make life worse' by blocking shoppers from using its tech.

By Emily Forlini
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Perplexity's Latest AI Tool Makes Patent Research Less Tedious

Perplexity Patents lets people use natural language queries to cut through the dense, hard-to-parse language and surface the patents they're looking for.

By Will McCurdy
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Perplexity Review: The Best AI Search Engine, But Still No ChatGPT Killer

3.5

Perplexity stands out for its strong AI-powered web searches and can handle most tasks you'd expect from an AI chatbot, but its limited deep research abilities are somewhat disappointing.

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By Ruben Circelli
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Curious About AI Browsers? Read This Before You Try Them

New research from Brave Software shows how hidden text in an image can be used to manipulate Perplexity's Comet browser.

By Michael Kan
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Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Now Free for All, Mobile App Coming Soon

After launching earlier this year for users on the company’s $200-per-month plan, Perplexity’s AI browser is now free for everyone with no waitlist.

By James Peckham
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PayPal, Venmo Users Can Get Perplexity Pro, Comet Browser Access for Free

Link your PayPal account to Perplexity and skip the $20-per-month Perplexity Pro fee for a year.

By Jibin Joseph
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I Switched to Perplexity’s AI Comet Browser for a Week. Is It the Future or Just Hype?

The Comet browser offers some powerful assistance features that you might fall in love with. However, I wasn't able to make great use of them just yet.

By Ruben Circelli
I Tried Perplexity’s Comet AI Browser for a Week—It's Awesome, But Maybe Not For Me

Cloudflare: Perplexity AI Acts Like North Korean Hackers, Ignores Scraping Blocks

Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures on third-party websites.

By Michael Kan
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I Asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok to Do My 'Deep Research'. One AI ChatBot Came Out on Top

OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, and xAi offer deep research modes that surf the web for you. I put them to the test with the same topic; here's how they fared and how to try it yourself.

By Lance Whitney
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Perplexity's AI Browser Comet Is Here, But Early Access Will Cost $200 Per Month

Comet is a browser packed with conversational as well as agentic AI features. To try it right now, you'll need a $200-per-month Perplexity Max subscription.

By Jibin Joseph
Perplexity's art for Comet AI browser launch

Moto AI and Perplexity Are Ready for Primetime on Motorola's New Razr Phones

Motorola’s new series of Razr phones focus on AI, with features like Catch Me Up and Remember This joining built-in access to Perplexity AI.

By James Peckham
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Perplexity Launches a Free 'Deep Research' AI Tool

Unlike its rivals, Perplexity offers all users a limited number of free Deep Research queries daily.

By Jibin Joseph
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