Jesse Dwyer

Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome, a browser-based AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users, entering a competitive race with OpenAI and Perplexity to build AI-powered browser experiences amid Google's antitrust challenges.

“Head of communications confirmed that Comet's browser agent vulnerability has been fixed.”

The New York Times sued Perplexity for copyright infringement, joining a growing coalition of publishers using lawsuits as leverage to force AI companies to license content and compensate creators.

“Quoted defending Perplexity against publisher lawsuits by comparing to historical legal battles over new technologies”

Reddit is suing Perplexity and data scraping services for illegally circumventing content protections to feed AI training, while competitors like OpenAI and Google pay for licensing agreements.

“Quoted defending Perplexity's approach and stating they will fight for users' rights to access public knowledge”

Cloudflare research shows Perplexity is scraping websites that explicitly blocked it by disguising its identity and changing user-agent signals to circumvent robots.txt protections.

“Perplexity spokesperson dismissed Cloudflare's accusations as a sales pitch and claimed the bot in question isn't theirs.”

Perplexity disguised its AI crawlers as Google Chrome and rotated IP addresses to bypass website restrictions and access content blocked by robots.txt files and firewall rules, according to Cloudflare's investigation of tens of thousands of domains.

“Spokesperson who called Cloudflare's report a 'publicity stunt' and disputed the findings”

“Perplexity's CCO who criticized the New York Times lawsuit against Brave, dismissing it as disinformation.”