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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perplexity has found itself in the crosshairs lately after some questionable attempts to expand on its knowledge base, as well as its attempts to pick up Chrome from Google. However, the company ...

The feud underscores the need for new standards in AI-web interaction, as bot detection tools struggle to distinguish between helpful assistants and harmful scrapers. A public war of words has erupted ...

A smartphone shows the official website of ChatGPT Atlas. “It'd be really nice to have a service that was sort of just observing your life and proactively helping you when you needed it,” said OpenAI ...

Perplexity’s Comet browser, which includes an AI assistant that can shop on behalf of users, is the subject of a suit by Amazon. (Perplexity Image) A federal judge in San Francisco granted Amazon a ...