Perplexity is a company that offers an AI-powered search and answer engine. Recent coverage includes a shopping test where it ranked best among AI tools, a legal appeal with Amazon before the U.S. Ninth Circuit, the launch of Portable Computer in its Windows app for NVIDIA RTX PCs running local agents, and its production deployment of GPT-6 Astra for tasks like writing communications, changing software, and monitoring systems.
Only 40% of AI-cited statistics trace to a studyA test posed 200 everyday questions requiring numbers to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews, then traced their citations. Only 40% of cited statistics could be traced back to an original study.
Blogger makes his site readable for AI agentsA blogger adapted his nginx-served static site for agents like Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity by publishing every post as Markdown, accessible via a .md suffix or Accept-header content negotiation. Safeguards include Vary: Accept for caches, canonical links and noindex on Markdown copies to avoid duplicate indexing. He also added /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt (about 225 KB) and /index.md to explain the site to agents.
Minuttia Study: Up to Half of AI-Cited Best Tools Lists Written by VendorsMinuttia analyzed 18,084 software questions and found that 34% to 47% of listicles cited by AI search are vendor-written, rising to 56% to 65% for comparison questions. 87% rank the vendor first, and only 16% disclose authorship. The study reveals self-promotional bias in AI search recommendations.
Study ranks AI shopping tools; Perplexity tops, Gemini lastProduct AI tested ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity on 220 shopping questions and found frequent errors, such as MacBook prices off by $300 and sunscreen SPF off by 10 points. Perplexity ranked best, followed by ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini last, with over half of Gemini's answers containing costly errors; Google disputed the study's relevance.
AMD Unveils Full-Stack Agentic AI PlatformAMD introduced a full-stack platform for agentic AI spanning EPYC CPUs, Instinct accelerators, Pensando networking and ROCm software. Agentic AI shifts the CPU-to-GPU ratio from 1:4-1:8 for chatbots toward 1:1 or higher, alongside new embedded and PC partnerships.
Art Book Experiment Has Multiple AI Models Read Each OtherA Paris experiment gives the same book to OpenAI/Astra, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Google Gemini and xAI/Grok, then has each model analyze the others' interpretations to observe convergences, divergences and blind spots. Launched alongside the book 'Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI,' it uses a book to better understand AI.
Amazon v. Perplexity at Ninth CircuitA Hacker News thread discusses an appeal between Amazon and Perplexity now before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case draws attention because it could influence legal frameworks and industry rules related to AI search and generation.
Perplexity Portable Computer Now on Windows with NVIDIA RTXPerplexity launched Portable Computer in its Windows app for NVIDIA GeForce/RTX PRO PCs, running local agents accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs. It ships with a local model (e.g. Qwen 3.8 27B), keeps sensitive data on-device, and can escalate tasks to cloud models with user permission.
Perplexity deploys GPT-6 Astra in productionPerplexity uses GPT‑6 Astra end-to-end to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, checking in far less frequently than earlier models, reflecting increased trust in autonomous agents.
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