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ChatGPT Now Drives 95% of AI Referral Traffic—22× Gemini, Claude and Perplexity Combined
ChatGPT is not merely leading the emerging market for AI referral traffic in BrightEdge’s latest dataset. It is absorbing almost the entire category.New data released by BrightEdge...
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The UK Could Turn ChatGPT and Perplexity Into Default Search Choices—and Make Source Attribution a Condition of Entry
The UK could force one of the most consequential changes yet to the default-search market: Google may have to present qualifying AI assistants alongside conventional search engines...
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Before an AI Can Cite Your Page, Its First Retriever Must Let the Page Into the Evidence Pool—Perplexity Now Has a Benchmark for That Gate
Before an AI search agent can cite a page, that page usually has to survive an earlier and less visible competition: first-stage retrieval. From an enormous web...
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Perplexity Rebuilds the Infrastructure Beneath AI Citations—Retrieving Source Passages Five Times Faster
Perplexity has rebuilt a critical storage layer underneath its AI search stack, replacing a managed DynamoDB-based hot store with a purpose-built distributed system called CobbleDB...
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Perplexity Is Training Its Search Agent on the Moments Users Correct It—and When Its Tools Break
Perplexity is experimenting with a different way to improve its Computer agent: instead of learning only from sessions that end successfully, it is training on the moments inside r...
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Perplexity Replaces Its Standard Agent Brain With Opus 5.5—Potentially Changing Research Quality, Sources and Citations by Default
Perplexity has made Claude Opus 5.5 the Standard effort level in Perplexity Computer, changing the default coordinating model used for a broad class of everyday agentic work. The c...
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Perplexity Makes GPT-6 Sol Its Default Lightweight Orchestrator—Changing Which Model Handles Everyday AI Search Tasks
Perplexity has added OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol to both its answer engine and Perplexity Computer, and the model is now the default choice behind Computer’s Light effort setting. The chang...
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Amazon Fails to Restore Its Block on Perplexity’s Shopping Agent—Strengthening the “AI Is a User Tool” Precedent
Amazon has failed to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reconsider a closely watched ruling over Perplexity’s AI shopping agent, leaving intact an opinion....
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Two New ChatGPT Citations Disappeared After One Week—While the Same Perplexity Citation Survived 15 Straight Tests
Two pages that earned their first ChatGPT citations disappeared from the same measurement panel just one week later, while a separate Perplexity citation survived its fifteenth con...
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ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity Cited AI-Generated Sources in About 16% of Cases
AI search engines are designed to make web research easier by synthesizing information and attaching citations, but a new audit raises a more complicated question: what happens whe...
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Perplexity’s AI Referral Share Nearly Halved—Should GEO Scores Stop Weighting Every Engine Equally?
Perplexity's share of worldwide AI chatbot referrals fell sharply during the summer of 2026, adding urgency to a measurement problem that has been building across generative engine...
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