Perplexity CEO reveals the company's new Comet browser will track users' entire online activity to create detailed profiles for selling hyper-personalized ads, launching in May alongside partnerships with Motorola and potential Samsung deals to challenge Google's dominance.
In a groundbreaking move, The Washington Post partners with OpenAI, allowing ChatGPT to integrate the newspaper's content, providing summaries, quotes, and links to its reporting when users ask relevant questions.
HubSpot bolsters its AI prowess by acquiring Dashworks, an AI-powered search assistant that consolidates data across apps, emails, documents, and meetings, enabling enhanced context gathering and search capabilities for its Breeze product.
BrowseComp, a novel AI benchmark, evaluates web browsing skills by posing 1,266 complex queries requiring synthesis of information across multiple websites, with a deep research model achieving 51.5% accuracy, surpassing other models' performance on this challenging task.
Google's global search dominance persists at 89.62%, but regional rivals like Bing, Yandex, and Baidu chip away at its lead, while AI-powered search and regulatory scrutiny over antitrust concerns intensify the competitive landscape.
Perplexity, an AI search startup, proposes an ambitious $30-50 billion bid to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations, rebuild its algorithm transparently and integrate its search capabilities, seeking funding at an $18 billion valuation.
ServiceNow is bolstering its AI capabilities with a massive $2.85 billion acquisition of Moveworks, a company specializing in enterprise automation and AI tools, enabling ServiceNow to combine its existing AI and automation offerings with Moveworks' AI assistant and enterprise search technology.
In a significant antitrust move, the Department of Justice is seeking the divestiture of Google's Chrome browser and imposing search neutrality measures, including prohibiting preferential treatment for Google's search engine and requiring notification of new ventures competing with Google's core search and advertising business.
Deutsche Telekom unveils 'AI Phone' with Perplexity AI co-pilot and launches 'Magenta AI' platform, integrating AI services from Google Cloud AI, ElevenLabs, and Picsart, bringing AI experiences to customers through the MeinMagenta app.
Perplexity AI, a pioneering AI venture firm, has unveiled an ambitious $50 million fund to catalyze the burgeoning AI startup ecosystem, poised to serve as an anchor investor for promising pre-seed and seed-stage AI companies across the United States, with seasoned investors Kelly Graziadei and Joanna Lee Shevelenko at the …