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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon argued an AI-powered shopping tool wasn't like other web browsers and a preliminary injunction to stop access to users ...

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 platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to ...

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 ...