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The latest Perplexity news, : AI Search Engineers says podcast guests boost AI search citations.

68 stories mentioning Perplexity since 14 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. This page shows the newest 60. Follow to see new ones on your front page.

  1. AI Search Engineers says podcast guests boost AI search citations

    AI Search Engineers, a self-described top US agency for AI search visibility, claims podcast appearances help professional service firms earn trusted citations in AI-generated answers. The firm argues that AI systems…

    1 source
    finance.yahoo.com
  2. Muck Rack finds journalism citations in AI drop to 22% in October report

    Muck Rack’s October 2026 What Is AI Reading? report shows journalism’s share of AI citations fell from 27% in May to 22%, based on over 40 million AI responses and 207 million citations across ChatGPT, Claude,…

    1 source
    Unite.AI
  3. Zapier blog reviews Perplexity AI features and pricing for research workflows

    The author, a content writer, describes using Perplexity for fact-checking, step-by-step learning, and multi-step task completion via its Computer agent feature. The article details Perplexity's search modes —…

    1 source
    Zapier Blog
  4. HubSpot compares Profound and Semrush AEO tools

    Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and other answer engines before opening a search page, so marketers need to track brand mentions in those AI‑generated answers. HubSpot’s guide compares two vendors –…

    2 sources
    HubSpot Marketing Blog
  5. Agents & Tools new

    Perplexity publishes guide to LLM gateway risks and mechanics

    Perplexity released a detailed guide on October 27, 2026, explaining how LLM gateways route, authenticate, and log model requests while highlighting security and reliability risks. The guide defines gateways as reverse…

    1 source
    Unite.AI
  6. Agents & Tools new

    TinyFish publishes agentic search architecture guide and deep research lessons

    TinyFish released two technical guides that detail a production‑grade agentic search architecture and lessons from building a deep research system. The architecture relies on four web primitives – TinySearch,…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  7. Agents & Tools new

    Perplexity releases Decider for Mac to run pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 locally

    Perplexity has made its 4 billion‑parameter decision model, pplx‑decider‑flash‑v1.2, runnable on a Mac without sending any data off‑device. The free Decider for Mac app installs a local server that mirrors the hosted…

    1 source
    docs.perplexity.ai
  8. Agents & Tools new

    1Password lets AI agents sign in without seeing passwords

    1Password announced a feature called 1Password for Agents that lets AI bots log into online services without ever exposing the user’s passwords. The system gives each agent a unique digital key; when the agent reaches…

    2 sources
    TechCrunch AIThe Verge AI
  9. Agents & Tools new

    Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse shopping agent as retailers grow wary

    Meta’s Muse AI shopping assistant has run into increasing resistance from major retailers. Amazon, which previously sued Perplexity over its own shopping bot, recently barred Muse from accessing its site, and Amazon…

    1 source
    The Verge AI
  10. Research new

    Perplexity and NVIDIA unveil JOLT, a joint teacher‑student RL post‑training method

    Perplexity and NVIDIA introduced JOLT, a post‑training method that lets a single model act as both teacher and student. The teacher receives privileged information while the student works only on the task, and both…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  11. Agents & Tools new

    Walmart launches Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles to let AI agents shop for customers

    Walmart announced the rollout of its Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles to enable AI agents to shop on its website and Sam’s Club on behalf of customers, with controls for approvals, spending limits, and purchase…

    3 sources
    Unite.AIThe Verge AITechCrunch AI
  12. Mark Williams‑Cook reveals $13,337 Google bug bounty from network‑tab analysis

    The author explains how inspecting the Network tab in Chrome DevTools can expose internal parameters of Google Search and ChatGPT. By copying a request, removing the "fmt=prog" flag, Google returned site‑quality…

    1 source
    Search Engine Journal
  13. China’s advertising association publishes five‑part GEO standard after TV scandal

    In March 2026 a hidden‑camera segment on China Central Television exposed a fake smart wristband that was promoted by AI models after a fabricated article campaign. The broadcast labeled the practice “AI poisoning” and…

    1 source
    Search Engine Journal
  14. Rankpage Vietnam expands AI search optimization services to local and global platforms

    rankpage vietnam, part of the regional rankpage seo network, announced an expanded focus on generative engine optimization (geo) and ai search visibility. the agency says it will help businesses improve brand…

    4 sources
    HubSpot Marketing Blogforbes.comfinance.yahoo.com
  15. Perplexity publishes guide on AI gateway mechanics and limits

    Perplexity released a guide on Oct 20, 2026 titled "What Is an AI Gateway? A Guide to Routing, Cost Control, and Governance for LLM and Agent Traffic". It explains what an AI gateway is, how it sits between an…

    1 source
    Unite.AI
  16. HubSpot outlines three ways to run answer engine optimization with a lean team

    HubSpot’s guide explains three practical paths for small marketing teams to manage Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) without hiring a dedicated search group. The DIY route relies on free or low‑cost tools such as manual…

    1 source
    HubSpot Marketing Blog
  17. Perplexity partners with Valarian to run Computer on institutional servers

    Perplexity announced a partnership with UK‑based sovereign infrastructure firm Valarian on October 20, 2026 to deploy its Perplexity Computer inside institutions’ own servers, including air‑gapped networks that are…

    1 source
    Unite.AI
  18. Agents & Tools new

    Exa claims Exa 3.0 search API leads Perplexity, Brave and Parallel on eight benchmarks

    Exa Labs announced Exa 3.0, an upgraded web‑search API for AI agents. The release adds a larger, undisclosed embedding model, a new "Lite" search type priced at $4 per 1,000 requests, and Dynamic Highlights that cut…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  19. Research new

    Fudan paper finds four AI search tools cite fabricated concept within a week

    Researchers at Fudan University posted fabricated articles about a fictional “Cactus Gravity Protocol” and other made‑up topics on nine popular sites and then queried ten AI search tools over a week in March and April.…

    1 source
    Search Engine Journal
  20. Google makes five changes to surface links in AI mode and AI Overviews

    OpenAI acknowledged a bug that removed the utmsource=chatgpt.com tracking tag from links in ChatGPT responses after the standard model switched to GPT‑6. The missing tag caused traffic to appear as "Direct" in GA4,…

    2 sources
    note.com
  21. Agents & Tools new

    NVIDIA may automatically enable AI agents control server in NVIDIA App

    NVIDIA’s latest NVIDIA App version 11.0.9.565 adds a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets compatible AI assistants such as Hermes, OpenClaw and Perplexity control app functions. The release notes mention…

    1 source
    videocardz.com
  22. Agents & Tools new

    Perplexity open-sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbox platform, with partners CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe

    Perplexity announced on October 15, 2026 that it is open-sourcing SPACE, the sandbox platform behind its Computer personal agent, releasing the code under the Apache License 2.0 with a public repository and hosted…

    3 sources
    MarkTechPostsemafor.comUnite.AI
  23. Hardware & Compute new

    NVIDIA launches RTX Spark laptops with local AI agents globally

    NVIDIA announced the worldwide launch of RTX Spark laptops on October 16, 2026, from manufacturers including ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI. Priced starting at $2,599, the systems feature local AI agent…

    26 sources primary source
    tech.yahoo.comgeeky-gadgets.comNVIDIA Blogcryptobriefing.com +16 more
  24. Floqer launches AI agents to automate sales prospecting for B2B teams

    Floqer, a startup founded in 2024 by Shivam Mahajan and Zaaheda Islam, is pitching its AI-powered autonomous customer knowledge platform at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The company claims its AI agents can cut prospecting…

    1 source
    TechCrunch AI
  25. TypeSafe’s Jev sparks copycat decision models after researcher claims prior work

    The release of TypeSafe’s Jev API—designed for direct probability-based decision-making—has triggered a flood of competitors. Jev lets developers feed structured data (like shopping transactions) and ask yes/no or…

    1 source
    Tom's Hardware
  26. TypeSafe/Jev hits $100M ARR, $7.5B valuation three weeks after launch

    TypeSafe announced it crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and reached a $7.5 billion valuation just three weeks after launching its Jev API, according to Sequoia’s leaked figures. The company, backed…

    1 source
    Latent Space
  27. HubSpot outlines four-step AEO audit to fix AI answer gaps

    HubSpot’s guide breaks down how to diagnose and fix gaps in AI answer engines’ use of a company’s content. An AEO (answer engine optimization) gap occurs when engines like ChatGPT or Perplexity either can’t or won’t…

    1 source
    HubSpot Marketing Blog
  28. AI search myths debunked by data: traffic, content, and SEO

    AI search myths persist despite data contradicting them. A MarTech article examines seven widely repeated claims about AI’s impact on search, organic traffic, and SEO—then tests them against real studies and analytics.…

    1 source
    MarTech
  29. AI shifts buyer research, leaving businesses to adapt to new pace

    Duane Forrester argues that AI assistants have fundamentally changed consumer behavior, allowing buyers to complete complex research in minutes rather than weeks. Using a truck purchase as an example, he notes that AI…

    1 source
    Search Engine Journal
  30. Perplexity adds 10 AI workflows for American Express Business Card holders

    Perplexity launched ten pre-built AI workflows called Skills for U.S. American Express Business Card holders on October 1, 2026. These workflows, accessible via an active Perplexity Enterprise subscription, cover tasks…

    1 source
    Unite.AI
  31. Zen Media finds no law firm in AI’s top 20 legal mentions

    Zen Media’s 2026 AI visibility benchmark for law firms analyzed 1,000 legal consumer prompts across four AI assistants—Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok—collecting 4,000 responses. The study found no individual law…

    1 source
    finance.yahoo.com
  32. Winston Francois outlines five AI search metrics to gauge client pipeline

    Winston Francois explains how to measure the impact of AI assistants on a company’s sales pipeline using five concrete metrics. He starts with brand presence, running five buyer‑intent prompts across four assistants…

    1 source
    Search Engine Journal
  33. Enterprise & Industry new

    Perplexity introduces Photon, a Rust-based retrieval engine

    Perplexity has launched Photon, a new in‑house retrieval and ranking engine written in Rust that now handles all production traffic and powers a Fast Search mode in its API. Photon reports single‑call latency of 160 ms…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  34. Policy & Regulation new

    Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse agent over credential risks and lack of identification

    Amazon blocked Meta’s shopping agent, Muse, on September 20, 2026, citing unauthorized access and potential credential risks. Amazon claims Muse does not identify itself when browsing and may capture or store customer…

    2 sources
    The Verge AISearch Engine Journal
  35. MarTechBot outlines steps to optimize content for AI search engines

    MarTech’s internal AI tool, MarTechBot, provides a strategic framework for shifting from traditional Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). The goal is to ensure brand visibility in…

    1 source
    MarTech
  36. HubSpot details AI search optimization tools and pricing for marketers

    AI search optimization tools let marketers see where their brand appears in AI‑generated answers, which sources earn citations, and what to improve. HubSpot’s State of AEO 2026 found 44% of marketers have made a…

    2 sources
    HubSpot Marketing BlogZapier Blog
  37. Agents & Tools new

    Exa launches Agent Ultra API for exhaustive research tasks

    Exa has released Agent Ultra, the highest effort level of its Exa Agent API, designed for research tasks that require exhaustive coverage such as large list building and entity enrichment. The system splits tasks into…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  38. Agents & Tools new

    Perplexity trains agent on real mistakes with Hint-Guided Self-Distillation

    Perplexity Research published a study on a new post-training method for its agent inside Perplexity Computer. The approach uses rejection sampling fine-tuning combined with hint-guided self-distillation to improve…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  39. Study finds AI shopping assistants wrong 86% of the time on prices and specs

    A study by Product.ai tested free and paid versions of four AI models—ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude—on 220 shopping questions. The models provided incorrect or conflicting information in 86% of responses,…

    1 source
    tech.co
  40. Study finds AI shopping assistants wrong 86% of the time on prices and specs

    A study by Product.ai tested free and paid versions of four AI models—ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude—on 220 shopping questions. The models provided incorrect or conflicting information in 86% of responses,…

    1 source
    tech.co
  41. Society & Work new

    AI in fertility care faces trust gap as evidence lags tools

    The global fertility rate has dropped from 4.9 children per woman in the 1950s to 2.3 today, with the UK’s rate at 1.39 in England and Wales for 2025. Assisted reproductive technology’s market is projected at $33.4…

    1 source
    Unite.AI
  42. Business & Funding new

    Latent Space announces AINews v3 and migration to Beehiiv

    Latent Space, the AI news network, has announced significant structural changes to its flagship newsletter, AINews. The publication, which has grown to over 200,000 subscribers, will merge its Discord community…

    1 source
    Latent Space
  43. PallasAI launches AI visibility platform with autonomous AEO agent

    PallasAI announced a new AI visibility platform that watches how brands appear in answers from nine major AI systems, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Copilot. The service runs a structured AEO audit…

    1 source
    usatoday.com
  44. ChatGPT referral traffic more than doubles in 2026, reaching 95.1% share of AI traffic according to BrightEdge

    BrightEdge data shows ChatGPT referral traffic increased 101% from January to August 2026, with its share of AI-generated referrals rising to a record 95.1% in August. This growth contrasts with minimal gains or…

    4 sources
    note.comthenextweb.comfinance.yahoo.com
  45. Society & Work new

    Opinion: AI Thinking Game No. 496 explores past necessities and current AI roles

    The 496th installment of the AI 1000‑Day Kaimine‑gyo challenge was posted by Entsu‑san: AI and Co‑Education Research Institute. The prompt asks participants to consider things that were once important but may no longer…

    1 source
    note.com
  46. Business & Funding new

    Claude holds No. 2 spot in South Korea's AI app market

    Anthropic's Claude has solidified its position as the second-most popular AI app in South Korea, trailing only ChatGPT. According to Mobile Index data for August, Claude recorded approximately 1.5 million monthly…

    5 sources
    upi.comnote.combiz.heraldcorp.com
  47. Opinion: AI search reshapes brand first impressions, says Status Labs CEO

    Darius Fisher, cofounder and CEO of Status Labs, argues that AI‑generated search answers are now a primary way consumers form first impressions of companies. He cites BrightLocal’s “Local Consumer Review Survey 2026,”…

    2 sources
    forbes.comnote.com
  48. Policy & Regulation new

    UK CMA proposes rules requiring Google to offer AI assistant choice on Android and Chrome

    The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed new rules that would require Google to allow Android and Chrome users to choose third-party AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity as default search…

    4 sources
    engadget.comandroidheadlines.comblockonomi.comaol.com
  49. Scrunch versus Peec AI: features, pricing and governance for AEO teams

    Scrunch and Peec AI are both AI answer‑engine (AEO) monitoring platforms, but they differ in scope, accessibility and governance. Scrunch’s Starter plan costs $300 per month (or $250 annually) for three seats, 350…

    1 source
    HubSpot Marketing Blog
  50. Agents & Tools new

    Brave launches privacy‑first AI assistant Leo

    Brave has added Leo, a privacy‑first AI assistant that lives in the browser sidebar and does not log or store user inputs. The free tier ships with Meta’s Llama 3.1, Alibaba’s Qwen 3, Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 3.5 and…

    1 source
    KDnuggets
  51. Trendos chief outlines citation audit to improve AI answer visibility

    Gintare Rimolaityte, Chief Commercial Officer at Trendos, presented a webinar on mapping the sources that AI answers cite for different industries. She showed how to start with a set of 10 to 20 buyer‑focused…

    1 source
    Search Engine Journal
  52. Recommendable launches AI visibility service for UK businesses

    Recommendable, a UK consultancy, has launched a monthly service to help premium independent businesses get recommended by AI search tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude, and Perplexity. The…

    1 source
    usatoday.com
  53. ChatPlayground AI sells lifetime unlimited plan for $54.97

    ChatPlayground AI is offering a Lifetime Unlimited subscription for $54.97, down from the regular $619 price, as a September Spotlight deal that runs through Sept 20. The plan bundles access to more than 20 leading AI…

    1 source
    mashable.com
  54. Cloudflare adds Bot Preference Sync to generate robots.txt from dashboard

    Cloudflare announced Bot Preference Sync, a feature that automatically writes robots.txt entries based on the AI bot policy settings a site configures in Cloudflare’s dashboard. The tool creates a block delimited by “…

    1 source
    Search Engine Journal
  55. Sure Bet Media launches Dominate Search AI for AI search visibility

    Sure Bet Media introduced Dominate Search AI, a service that audits and optimizes how businesses appear on AI answer platforms such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. The offering combines…

    1 source
    usatoday.com
  56. Does product page copy still matter when AI agents read feeds and schema?

    In this Ask an SEO column, the author argues that product‑page copy remains crucial even as large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity begin to read product feeds and structured data. The piece notes…

    1 source
    Search Engine Journal
  57. Agents & Tools new

    Data Shows Grok Leading Over ChatGPT in Agentic Trading

    Artemis data reports over 2 million agentic‑payment transactions, peaking at $70k daily volume in late August/early September, as AI agents increasingly interact directly with financial infrastructure via APIs, wallets…

    1 source
    finance.yahoo.com
  58. Agents & Tools new

    Data Shows Grok Leading Over ChatGPT in Agentic Trading

    Artemis data reports over 2 million agentic‑payment transactions, peaking at $70k daily volume in late August/early September, as AI agents increasingly interact directly with financial infrastructure via APIs, wallets…

    1 source
    finance.yahoo.com
  59. Agents & Tools new

    Anthropic may launch Claude Money, leaked iOS screens show bank‑account integration

    Screenshots uncovered on September 14, 2026 inside the unreleased Claude iOS app display a new “Money” tab that would let users link their bank accounts and ask the assistant about spending, budgeting and financial…

    1 source
    memeburn.com
  60. AI agents like Instinct and Meta's Muse could threaten Amazon, retail expert says

    Agentic shopping bots like the startup Instinct and Meta's Muse are beginning to roll out to consumers, promising to buy groceries, book flights, and handle transactions. However, retail journalist Jason Del Rey notes…

    1 source
    businessinsider.com

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As of 29 October 2026: AI Search Engineers says podcast guests boost AI search citations. AI Search Engineers, a self-described top US agency for AI search visibility, claims podcast appearances help professional service firms earn trusted citations in AI-generated answers.