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 AI answers user questions by pulling from news websites in real time. CNN says that process copied over 17,000 of its stories, videos, and images without consent. The lawsuit is CNN's first ...

When Perplexity first launched its Comet AI browser in July, we warned that users might want to steer clear. But a lot can change in a few months, and since July, Perplexity has been improving its ...

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 ...

Through the deployment of Perplexity Enterprise Pro, Tech Mahindra aims to empower its sales teams with faster access to ...

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 ...

The AI-epidemic of the internet is no joke, with every website, service, and platform looking to offer its own version of an LLM-powered helpful assistant. The platform previously known as Twitter has ...

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 ...