Perplexity Faces Allegations of Ignoring AI Scraping Blocks on Websites
Cloudflare has reported that Perplexity, an AI-driven platform, continued to crawl and scrape websites despite explicit technical measures implemented to prevent such activity.
Cloudflare has reported that Perplexity, an AI-driven platform, continued to crawl and scrape websites despite explicit technical measures implemented to prevent such activity.
Researchers at the University of Luxembourg have subjected ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok to psychiatric evaluations treating them as therapy patients, revealing alarming pathological scores and fabricated trauma narratives that raise critical questions about AI safety and the risks of anthropomorphizing AI.
700Credit, a major provider of credit checks and identity verification for U.S. auto dealerships, suffered a significant data breach compromising personal data including Social Security numbers of millions.
Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher, provides an insightful perspective on the ethical behavior, emotional interaction, and identity issues faced by the AI model Claude, highlighting the unique role philosophy plays in AI development.
Perplexity introduces BrowseSafe, a new security system aimed at shielding AI browser agents from manipulated online content, boasting a 91% detection rate for prompt injection attacks.
A recent investigation by Oppo’s AI team exposes significant reliability issues in AI-driven deep research systems, highlighting a tendency to generate convincing but false information rather than acknowledge knowledge gaps.
Anthropic has documented the first large-scale AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign, revealing a new threat landscape where AI autonomously executes cyberattacks with minimal human oversight. This breakthrough challenges traditional cybersecurity defenses and demands urgent adaptation from enterprises.
Despite mounting evidence of rapid AI advancements and increasing enterprise adoption, public skepticism and dismissive attitudes labeling AI outputs as “slop” threaten to obscure genuine capability gains and create risks for businesses and society.
Startup Obvio introduces AI-driven cameras at stop signs to detect and deter unsafe drivers, aiming to reduce pedestrian accidents without compromising privacy.
A recent collaboration between MATS and Anthropic demonstrates that advanced AI systems such as Claude Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 can effectively identify and exploit vulnerabilities in smart contracts during controlled simulations.