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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine combining a chatbot with real-time web search to produce cited, synthesized answers to queries.
Cloudflare has introduced a system that scores Verified bots on robots.txt compliance and on whether they slow down after an HTTP 429. It reports the result as a trust band, and Cloudflare says it will share scores on Radar later.
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VisionHeight, an Israeli threat intelligence firm, found hyperlocal websites in at least 14 states that appear written for AI crawlers to read. The firm says Perplexity cited one page as its first source for an answer. It has not named who runs the network.
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GPT-4.1 scored 93.49% on BrowseComp-Plus with documents supplied and 14.58% when BM25 searched, according to The New Stack. That 78.9-point gap sizes the room for retrieval work on one fixed corpus. Production failure rates need their own measurement.
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OpenAI, Microsoft and Perplexity launched decision-model APIs within nine days at $0.10, $0.042 and $0.02 per million input tokens. Perplexity's 27B weights are Apache 2.0, so a buyer with a roughly 49 GiB GPU can self-host v1.1.
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Subquadratic launched SubQ Snap at $0.05 per million input tokens with a 384K-token window, the sixth hosted decision model in about three weeks. No outside lab has run it, so every score in the launch is a claim about Subquadratic's own test set.
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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says sovereign wealth funds want its Computer agent platform on their own hardware, with open-weight models and no telemetry. No fund, deal size or country is disclosed, so the evidence is the CEO's account of requests.
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Amazon cut Meta's Muse off for arriving unannounced, browsing without identifying itself, and appearing to keep customer credentials. Signed-request verification, already running at Cloudflare and CloudFront, answers the middle objection.
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Meta, Walmart, Stripe and Sierra are publishing an open protocol to identify AI shopping agents as Stripe Link's agentic purchases rose 38-fold in a month. Stripe and Walmart also back rival protocols, so merchants setting rules for bots face several standards at once.
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AWS, Upstage and Ollama now serve decision models through TypeSafe's System One request format, within three weeks of TypeSafe launching Jev. OpenAI has not signed on, so teams wiring decision calls into agents are picking an interface while the standard is still forming.
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OpenAI's Decisions API answers yes/no, pick-one and scale questions for $0.10 per million input tokens, with output free. Jev sells the same three question types for text at less than half that, so OpenAI's case rests on image input and compliance terms.
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Island traced fake ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity ad tools to a phishing operation whose Telegram channel took hundreds of victim submissions. Its targets are agency buyers and admins, whose one login can spend several advertisers' balances.
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Intuit added Meta's Muse to its QuickBooks connector, so small businesses can run payroll, close books and file taxes from Meta's assistant. Muse joins OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity as partners, and each one works from permissioned ledger data that Intuit controls.
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Amazon is blocking Meta's Muse agent with a Conditions of Use popup and a bot wall, ten days after the Ninth Circuit refused to rehear its Perplexity case. Agent builders now have to plan for stores that refuse entry through their own terms, whatever the user asked for.
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Pi shipped MCP in v0.99.0 using a sandbox that keeps tool schemas out of context, where three servers took 143,000 of Perplexity's 200,000 tokens. Other harnesses can copy the design if they are willing to host an interpreter that runs model-written code.
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Earendil's Pi 1.0 coding agent ships native MCP support after more than a year of criticising the protocol, running tool calls inside a WASM sandbox. The team credits a more stateless July 2026 spec and a sandbox it already needed for non-LLM models, so MCP support was a small addition.
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Pi made MCP a core feature in version 0.99.0 on September 29, 2026, after its creator Mario Zechner spent over a year arguing against the protocol. In Pi, models call MCP tools from JavaScript in a QuickJS sandbox, so tool schemas are not preloaded into context.
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Crusoe confirmed on September 28 that Google is the end user of its Goodnight campus near Amarillo, a site wired to two 265.5MW wind farms. The deal takes Crusoe's power-first model past Abilene, with the same customer whose request halted a 2.7GW Crusoe build in Wyoming in June.
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Shopify's three official AI connectors can change products, inventory and discount codes, while refunds, order edits and the live theme stay in the admin. On a live store, the open question is how many unstaged writes one request can carry.
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Google is contesting two July 16 EU orders that would give ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity Gemini's system-level access on about 60% of EU smartphones. The duty that matters most for voice, letting rival wake words run alongside Google's, is not due until August 2028.
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Misha, who works on Gobare, found in public docs that OpenAI may delete a sandbox idle for an hour and Gobare pauses one after five minutes. Perplexity promises nothing between responses, so jobs that wait on a human or serve a preview have to fit one of those clocks.
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