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I used Perplexity to make a restaurant reservation - now I'm wondering if Google is holding us back

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-04 21:30:17

Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images ZDNET's takeaways Perplexity's new feature lets you make a restaurant reservation straight through OpenTable. The feature uses OpenTable's system, so you don't have to trust the AI to do it for you. Instead of navigating between apps or tabs to find a restaurant and then book a table, Perplexity handles everything. Finding the perfect restaurant and making a reservation just got a whole lot easier thanks to a new feature in Perplexity. The chatbot (which ZDNET's

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Trump's Truth Social launches AI search powered by Perplexity

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-06 14:22:50

Truth Social, President Trump's social media platform, is beta testing an AI search feature powered by Perplexity . Truth Search AI is launching first on the web version of Truth Social, with plans to begin a public beta for the feature on iOS and Android in the near future. "We're excited to partner with Truth Social to bring powerful AI to an audience with important questions," said Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity. The controversial AI company has found itself embroile

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Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-06 18:18:23

AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s social media platform. The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on its iOS and Android apps planned for “the near future.” Trump Media said in a press release that Perplexity’s tech provides “direct, contextually accurate answers with transparent citations” which will help Truth Social “exponentially incre

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Herbie detects inaccurate expressions and finds more accurate replacements

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 06:54:30

Herbie improving accuracy on the “Hamming” benchmark suite. Longer arrows are better. Each arrow starts at the accuracy of the original expression, and ends at the accuracy of Herbie’s output, in each case on random double-precision inputs. Herbie Project News The Herbie Developers Herbie is developed at UW PLSE, with contributions from a supportive community. The main contributors are Pavel Panchekha, Alex Sanchez-Stern, David Thien, Zachary Tatlock, Jason Qiu, Jack Firth, and James R. Wilc

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Trump Media Is Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 14:35:09

President Donald Trump's media company, Trump Media, is beta-testing a new AI search feature, Truth Search AI, on the Truth Social platform. The Florida-based company announced the news on Wednesday in a press release. Trump Media and Technology Group is perhaps best known for its social-media program Truth Social. The company is separate from the New York-based Trump Organization. "We're proud to partner with Perplexity to launch our public Beta testing of Truth Social AI, which will make Tru

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First impressions of Alexa+, Amazon’s upgraded, AI-powered digital assistant

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-08 18:27:16

I owned a lot of Alexa-powered devices in my former home: There were Amazon Echos in most rooms, including an older Echo Plus in the living room, a smattering of Dots, a Spot in a bedroom, and an Echo Show in the kitchen. A Fire TV ran in the bedroom. And, in a drawer, a rarely used Fire HD tablet sat collecting dust. With the total loss of the home due to a March 2024 house fire, there also came a new opportunity: We could now make a fresh start to create a more modernized smart home after reb

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I tried Perplexity's new reservation feature, and it surprised me with new dining spots to try

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-09 04:30:25

Thomas Barwick/Getty Images ZDNET's takeaways Perplexity's new feature lets you make a restaurant reservation straight through OpenTable. The feature uses OpenTable's system, so you don't have to trust the AI to do it for you. Instead of navigating between apps or tabs to find a restaurant and then book a table, Perplexity handles everything. Finding the perfect restaurant and making a reservation just got a whole lot easier thanks to a new feature in Perplexity. The chatbot (which ZDNET's

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Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 11:12:08

Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch

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Perplexity says Cloudflare's accusations of 'stealth' AI scraping are based on embarrassing errors

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-11 09:37:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Cloudflare claims Perplexity ignores websites' wishes in its content hunt. Other AI companies, such as OpenAI, don't wipe content, Cloudflare says Cloudflare now offers services to block aggressive AI crawlers. Perplexity is denying Cloudflare's claims. Cloudflare, a leading content delivery network (CDN) company, has accused the AI startup Perplexity of evading websites' "no crawl" directives by stealthily deploying web crawlers to scrape

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Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-11 23:33:03

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 gone wild. Many people came to Perplexity’s defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable. And this is a controversy that will certainly grow as AI agents flood the internet: Should an agent accessing a website on b

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Perplexity is sneaking onto websites to scrape blocked content, says Cloudflare

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-12 04:42:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Cloudflare claimed Perplexity ignores websites' wishes in its content hunt. Cloudflare said other AI companies, such as OpenAI, don't wipe content. Cloudflare now offers services to block aggressive AI crawlers. Cloudflare, a leading content delivery network (CDN) company, has accused the AI startup Perplexity of evading websites' "no crawl" directives by stealthily deploying web crawlers to scrape content from sites that have explicitly bl

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Samsung’s new foldable display tech could make the Galaxy Z Fold 8 its sleekest yet

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 03:43:58

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung Display has introduced a new foldable display brand called MONTFLEX. The branding promises thinner, more durable, and flatter foldable displays MONTFLEX panels could power next year’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Flip 8 Samsung’s display arm has a new foldable display brand called “MONTFLEX,” which is essentially the company’s way of highlighting its most innovative foldable displays ever. The name “MONTFLEX” comes from the French word mont, meaning “

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Sengled’s downfall shows the peril of relying on cloud connections for smart home control

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-12-13 06:20:50

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After repeatedly leaving customers without smart control of their lights, Sengled has been booted from Amazon’s Works With Alexa program. As first reported by TechHive, beginning August 1st, Sengled’s Alexa skill for controlling its l

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Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-13 14:14:47

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 misunderstandings, a new report shows that not only is the practice still happening, but it may actually be getting worse. Perplexity’s main counter-argument: semantics The issue with Perplexity’s web crawling practices first came to light in June 2024, when Wired and other media outlets accused the company

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Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-13 18:11:10

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 appear to be "stealth crawling" sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls. Robots.txt is a simple file websites host that lets web crawlers know if they can scrape a websites' content or not. Perplexity's official web crawling bots are "PerplexityBot" and "Perplexity-Us

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Amazon pulls the plug on Sengled’s Alexa skill after months of outages

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-12-13 18:20:50

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After repeatedly leaving customers without smart control of their lights, Sengled has been booted from Amazon’s Works With Alexa program. As first reported by TechHive, beginning August 1st, Sengled’s Alexa skill for controlling its l

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Amazon Might Bring Ads to Alexa Plus: Here's What That Could Mean for You

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 03:41:28

Amazon's Alexa could soon start pitching you more than just the weather. According to reporting by Mashable from Amazon's July 31 second-quarter earnings call, the company is considering adding ads to Alexa Plus, its premium AI-driven assistant that's designed to be more conversational and useful than the Alexa you know. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly said that Alexa Plus could open the door to "significant financial opportunity" by delivering ads during conversations. A representative for A

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AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-14 04:16:26

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and optimization service Cloudflare said Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers who had disallowed Perplexity scraping bots by implementing settings in their sites’ robots.txt files and through Web application

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Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-14 14:51:25

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The AI search startup Perplexity is allegedly skirting restrictions meant to stop its AI web crawlers from accessing certain websites, according to a report from Cloudflare. In the report, Cloudflare claims that when Perplexity encounters a block, the startup wi

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Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-14 23:41:39

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, Cloudflare published research saying it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and hide its crawling and scraping activities. The network infrastructure giant accused Perplexity of obscuring its identity when trying to scrape web pages “in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences,” Cloudfl

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Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 09:39:30

5 min read We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences. We see continued evidence that Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing their source ASNs to hide their crawling activity, as well as ignoring — or sometimes

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Amazon eyes ads and upcharges for Alexa Plus

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-12-15 23:29:18

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. In the week’s least surprising news, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed that the company is exploring ways to bring ads to Alexa Plus, its new generative-AI-powered voice assistant. During a conference call following the company’s second-quarter earnings report, Jassy said that “there will be opportunities, as people are enga

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Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 23:04:39

Since 2023, Amazon has been framing Alexa+ as a monumental evolution of Amazon’s voice assistant that will make it more conversational, capable, and, for Amazon, lucrative. Amazon said in a press release on Thursday that it has given early access of the generative AI voice assistant to “millions” of people. The product isn’t publicly available yet, and some advertised features are still unavailable, but Amazon’s CEO is already considering loading the chatbot up with ads. During an investors cal

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Amazon already plans to put ads in Alexa+ conversations

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-17 14:02:32

Which would you rather have: an AI-powered Alexa+ that advertises to you, or an AI-lacking Siri that doesn’t? Hopefully Apple can sort out its AI struggles and users never have to face that decision. But if you’re an Alexa+ user, it sounds like more ads are definitely in your future. Amazon CEO touts opportunities for advertising through Alexa+ Amazon reported its quarterly earnings this week, and the AI-powered Alexa+ unsurprisingly came up. What perhaps was a surprise is how fast Amazon CEO

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Amazon CEO wants to put ads in your Alexa+ conversations

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-18 14:34:53

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sees an opportunity to deliver ads to users during their conversations with the company’s AI-powered digital assistant, Alexa+, he said during Amazon’s second-quarter earnings call Thursday. “People are excited about the devices that they can buy from us that has Alexa+ enabled in it. People do a lot of shopping [with Alexa+]; it’s a delightful shopping experience that will keep getting better,” said Jassy on the call with investors and Wall Street analysts. “I think over

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Kaizen (YC X25) is hiring engineers to build browser agents that work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 18:00:56

Why you should join Kaizen Kaizen uses browser agents to help developers instantly integrate into websites without APIs. We’re tackling the $300B business process outsourcing market by automating all repetitive work done on the computer. The problem: Most business-critical data lives in web portals without APIs. In logistics, healthcare, and financial services companies rely on hundreds of these systems. Custom integrations across them typically involve weeks of engineering work, a never-endin

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What’s the Deal With That Freaky Bald Creature in ‘Superman’?

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-21 23:20:16

The Mr. Handsome fan club is growing, so naturally, we want to know more about the freaky Creepypasta-looking slender monster featured in Superman. Director James Gunn didn’t exactly pull from the DC Comics library for this very weird character; though there was a Mr. Handsome villain in Catwoman’s lore, they appear to be unrelated. This Mr. Handsome is a Lex Luthor abomination. It appears in his pocket universe as the driver of his raft through the various rows of toxic curiosities and curatio

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The 8 Best Amazon Echo and Alexa Speakers (2025): We’ve Tested Them All

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-12-23 23:32:00

Other Alexa (or Alexa Compatible) Speakers Amazon Echo Pop for $40: The Echo Pop is a perfectly fine little speaker, and the cutest one in Amazon's lineup. Does it have great sound? No. It's fine enough for background tunes or if you're limited to a dorm room, but you'll get much better sound for a similar size from the Echo Dot (but you'll pay a little more, and you won't get as cute of colors!) Amazon Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen) for $90: This smart display is another just-fine option, but it's too

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Two Birds with One Tone: I/Q Signals and Fourier Transform

news.ycombinator.com Qasim Chaudhari 2025-12-23 22:09:04

When a new member arrives at the Signal Processing Club, this is what they find at the club gate: I/Q signals. Perhaps a secret plot to keep most people out of the party? Some return from here to try another area (e.g., machine learning, which pays more and is easier to understand but less interesting than signal processing). Others persist enough to push the gate open for implementation purposes (even a little understanding is sufficient for this task) but never fully grasp the main idea. So w

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Sony officially unveils FlexStrike wireless fight stick for PlayStation and PC

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-24 12:36:00

Highly anticipated: The FlexStrike wireless fight stick includes round, octagonal, and square interchangeable restrictor gates. So if you want to pause Street Fighter 6 for some Pac-Man, you can easily snap in the square gate without tools. For portability, the base's bottom pops off to reveal storage for the gates, USB cable (included), and the new PS Link USB adapter. It also comes with a nice sling carrying case for travel or storage. During last month's State of Play, Sony unveiled Project

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I used Perplexity to make a restaurant reservation - now I'm wondering if Google is holding us back

Trump's Truth Social launches AI search powered by Perplexity

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Trump Media Is Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

First impressions of Alexa+, Amazon’s upgraded, AI-powered digital assistant

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