The internet is an incredible resource built on a foundation of unspoken trust. For decades, a simple, clear rule has guided the behavior of automated web crawlers: a site’s robots.txt file is a set ...

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 ...

Global cloud platform company Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth, undeclared crawlers” to intentionally ignore websites’ no-crawl directives. In other words, Perplexity is getting ...

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 ...

New research by the website services and cybersecurity company Cloudflare alleges that Perplexity has been intentionally bypassing measures designed to block unwanted AI crawling and scraping on ...

Perplexity's Brain is a self-improving memory layer that tracks what the AI agent Computer did, what worked, and what failed.

Search engines hadn't changed much in a very long time -- until AI search entered the scene. Perplexity is one of the artificial intelligence platforms trying to reshape how we find answers online by ...

Social media giant Reddit is suing Perplexity AI and three other firms over alleged “industrial-scale” scraping of posts from its website. Perplexity – a San Francisco-based startup with its own ...

AI Overviews and chatbot responses instead pull information from multiple sources, synthesize it into a few paragraphs, and ...

Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth crawlers” to evade website no-crawl directives. This practice, if true, is a significant breach of the internet’s long-standing trust between ...