Perplexed-ity?
I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
I’ve read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity’s Comet browser. I want to like them and I want to cheer for them but jeesh Louise I just can’t when they repeatedly flaunt the crawling rules. I get it; there’s this sense of desparation when you work at a tech company with cool technology and yet you have such a small market share and you try so hard. Maybe Apple will buy them?
My other musing would be about Anthropic. Here’s an 800 pound Gorilla in the frontier model space that is apparently making money had over fist, and could quity possibly be crippled by a class action suit based on the fact they stole ebooks to train their system.
Always clever Google
Tuckahoe! I wanted information on how RAG and Live Intenet Search work with LLMs. I chose Gemini 2.5 Pro Reasoning, Math & Code for the task. The final example included as a follow up to expand on real time search included my physical location, which is freely...
Rollups best left to fruit
The Neuron newsletter served up this TechCrunch article about Read the article https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-ai-investor-elad-gil-finds-his-next-big-bet-ai-powered-rollups/. Here's a quote from the article: "The idea is to identify opportunities to buy...
Copilot Summarizes just the page
I saw a headline Windows dashboard about a popular internet provider that filed for Chapter 11. I was curious and decided to check it out and clicked the story. The news item is from "TheStreet" and the initial page does not show the entire article, just the first...
Character.AI and possible suicide
I came across this news item from a while back: This mom believes an AI chatbot is responsible for her son’s suicide Wow, this is just brutal and my heart goes out to his family and friends. Character.ai and the other named defendents tried to use free speech in...
SMH – AI-Driven Layoffs
Shaking my head in response to someone responding "We acted too quickly" with respect to downsizing as a result of AI implementation. Step 1 - Jump on AI bandwagon Step 2 - implement (pricey?) AI stuff hot off the presses Step 3 - Layoffs = more $$$ for us! Or more...
TEDs v 2.what?
I came across this TechCrunch article covering the recent news that Google is committing 150M to develop AI glasses with Warby Parker: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/google-commits-150m-to-develop-ai-glasses-with-warby-parker/ My immediate thought was a new take on...
Bill Gates, not a jerk billionaire
Bill Gates has announced he's giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs. Here's the announcement from Gates Foundation There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them. A have an internal screed about...