Perplexity stories

Custom Travel Solutions opens RouteStack, giving AI assistants live hotel inventory and a direct path to bookings as it eyes wider travel categories.

New research suggests leading AI models each develop distinct 'information personalities', favouring different sources in their cited answers.

1Password unveils Unified Access to secure AI agents and machine credentials, promising endpoint-to-agent visibility for security teams.

As AI transforms search, traditional marketing metrics lose clout, making always-on brand visibility the new make-or-break advantage.

saas.group surpasses USD $100m ARR as it doubles down on AI-led upgrades and fresh acquisitions across its 25-plus software brands.

Plaid and Perplexity debut Portfolio, an AI tool that links brokerage accounts for personalised, conversational investment insights.

monday.com now lets AI agents sign up and work as full platform users, with direct workspace access, shared governance and unified pricing.

monday.com now lets external AI agents sign up, verify and work natively inside its platform, collaborating alongside human users.

Q4 adds AI-focused optimisation to investor relations sites, helping listed firms surface verified disclosures in answer engines like ChatGPT.

Samsung is adding Perplexity as a system-level agent on upcoming Galaxy flagships, deepening its shift to a multi-assistant AI strategy.

Gartner predicts public LLMs will double PR budgets by 2027 as AI search reshapes discovery and employee chatbots replace intranets.

Snapchat adds detailed screen-time and friend context tools to Family Centre, giving parents new teen safety insights without reading chats.

BioCatch warns AI shopping agents will turbocharge online fraud, urging banks and retailers to distinguish helpful bots from criminal misuse.

Babeltext debuts MC-ML-AI, a standard to turn multilingual, multichannel customer chats into completed bookings, transactions and cases.

Cloudflare warns 2025 brings surging AI traffic, record DDoS attacks and escalating Internet 'bot wars' as civil groups face rising threats.

Seventy percent of Australians plan to shop online this holiday season, with AI tools and Buy Now, Pay Later options driving a digital surge in sales.

Supplier product content is now retail's largest hidden cost, with poor quality and duplication hurting AI-driven search and boosting operational expenses.

Analysis shows 85% of Australian online retailers' product pages underperform in search, with 49% product description duplication hindering AI-driven discovery.

A hidden API in the Comet AI browser can let extensions execute commands and seize control of users' devices, raising serious security concerns.

Optidan Core launches to tackle the retail product data crisis by providing structured, AI-ready content for better search visibility and customer trust.