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#perplexity

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Patrick Vanhoucke

In a hands-on with the #Perplexity #AI powered web browser #Comet, #TechCrunch found it requests broad #Google Account access — like managing drafts, sending emails, downloading contacts, editing calendars, and copying a company's full employee directory.

techcrunch.com/2025/07/19/for-

TechCrunch · For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data | TechCrunch
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Dennis A

#Comet #Perplexity
The new AI browser from Perplexity makes Chrome feel outdated. I guess I should check it out before my Perplexity Pro freebie runs out. Perplexity blows my mind.

I tried the browser everyone's talking about, and it left Chrome in the dust

"I tried the new AI browser from Perplexity and it made Chrome feel outdated."
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Android Police · I tried the browser everyone's talking about, and it left Chrome in the dustI tried the new AI browser from Perplexity and it made Chrome feel outdated
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Not so long ago, you would be right to question why a seemingly innocuous-looking free “flashlight” or “calculator” app in the app store would try to request access to your contacts, photos, and even your real-time location data. These apps may not need that data to function, but they will request it if they think they can make a buck or two by monetizing your data.

These days, AI isn’t all that different.

Take Perplexity’s latest AI-powered web browser, Comet, as an example. Comet lets users find answers with its built-in AI search engine and automate routine tasks, like summarizing emails and calendar events.

In a recent hands-on with the browser, TechCrunch found that when Perplexity requests access to a user’s Google Calendar, the browser asks for a broad swath of permissions to the user’s Google Account, including the ability to manage drafts and send emails, download your contacts, view and edit events on all of your calendars, and even the ability to take a copy of your company’s entire employee directory.

Perplexity says much of this data is stored locally on your device, but you’re still granting the company rights to access and use your personal information, including to improve its AI models for everyone else.

Perplexity isn’t alone in asking for access to your data. There is a trend of AI apps that promise to save you time by transcribing your calls or work meetings, for example, but which require an AI assistant to access your real-time private conversations, your calendars, contacts, and more. Meta, too, has been testing the limits of what its AI apps can ask for access to, including tapping into the photos stored in a user’s camera roll that haven’t been uploaded yet."

techcrunch.com/2025/07/19/for-

TechCrunch · For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data | TechCrunch
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#CyberSecurity#AI#GenerativeAI
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> From booking a restaurant reservation with details you provide, or simply #browsing the #web to compile information on a topic, #Comet is a completely new way of spending time online, and I’ve found my first 48 hours to be incredibly eye-opening.

> once the workflow of asking it to figure things out so I could focus on other, more pressing tasks started to make sense, I began to see Comet’s true potential.

techradar.com/computing/artifi

TechRadar · I used Perplexity’s new Comet browser to book a restaurant while I wrote this article, and honestly it’s the first time AI has wowed meI've found AI's purpose
#perplexity#ai#browser
Dennis A

#Perplexity #Comet #ai
"Perplexity on Wednesday launched its first AI-powered web browser, called Comet, marking the startup’s latest effort to challenge Google Search as the primary avenue people use to find information online."

Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser | TechCrunch

"Perplexity is launching its first AI-powered web browser, Comet, marking the company's latest attempt to unseat Google Search."
techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/perp

TechCrunch · Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser | TechCrunchPerplexity is launching its first AI-powered web browser, Comet, marking the company's latest attempt to unseat Google Search.
Brad Linder

Perplexity's Comet web browser is now available, but requires a $200/month Perplexity Max subscription. It's based on Google Chromium, but tightly integrated with AI features that let the browser perform actions based on prompts. engadget.com/ai/perplexitys-co #AI #AIBrowser #WebBrowsers #Perplexity #Comet

Engadget · Perplexity's Comet AI browser is available now for $200 per monthBy Ian Carlos Campbell
Timo Tijhof

Is it worth letting LLM makers crawl your site?

Cloudflare shares an interesting stat (for sites they host):
comparing crawler requests to browser requests referred from the vendor's site/app.

Eg, GoogleBot requests vs google.com referals (i.e. result served and clicked).

OpenAI and Perplexity are off the charts here, thousand to one.

Based on their poorly behaved crawlers, and their current low tendency to serve links - perhaps not?

blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-

#Perplexity#OpenAI
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Nonilex

#GiftArticle

🤣…Though #Trump appears to support #AI, that does not mean AI supports him….

To counter any inadvertent bias or systemic failures, we asked each of 5 leading AI models — #OpenAI’s #ChatGPT; #Anthropic’s #Claude; X/ #xAI’s #Grok; #Google’s #Gemini; & #Perplexity — to verify Trump’s most oft-repeated claims or assertions.…

AI discredited ALL the Trump claims we presented, fact-checking him with startling accuracy & objective rigor.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies
wapo.st/3TlYrO5

The Washington Post · AI fact-checked Donald Trump and this is what we learnedBy Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Stephen Henriques, Steven Tian
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Livia Weigel

Yesterday was fun. Initially I only tested #Deepseek, now tested #perplexity (sonar, custom version of GPT-3) and #openai GPT-4, -4.1 and -4.5 (preview). Results between providers quite different, GPT-4.X family is surprisingly conversational.

But most notably: all models share a common stereotype of #haecksen and it’s not reflecting my real world results.

Reproducing social sciences with #LLM? More like reproducing wrong stereotypes

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adacosta

@markgurman #Apple should save their money and continue to partner. Don't go deep in on this fad. See the relationship between #OpenAI and #Microsoft is starting to show deep cracks. #Meta itself doesn't have a play and wanted a leg up by purchasing #Perplexity. Google Gemini will not be dominant either. Apple, continue to partner, make the best computers for developers to build and access AI, keep your heads down and build your home grown solution overtime. Tell Wallstreet to F-Off.

AAKL

That's actually funny.

Apple Insider: Apple execs may be newly considering buying AI firm Perplexity appleinsider.com/articles/25/0 @appleinsider

Then again, there's this claim:

Fortune India: Perplexity shuts down Apple acquisition chatter, says no talks underway fortuneindia.com/technology/ex @fortune

Meanwhile, from yesterday. Scraping is a polite way of saying Perplexity has been caught stealing, which is what Apple would inherit were it to buy that monster.

Reuters: FT reports BBC threatens legal action against AI startup Perplexity over content scraping reuters.com/business/media-tel @Reuters #Perplexity #Apple #AI

AppleInsiderApple execs may be newly considering buying AI firm Perplexity | AppleInsiderPerhaps in an acquihire to boost search, or to improve Siri, Apple executives have reportedly recently discussed buying or partnering with AI startup Perplexity.
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