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5W Public Relations Leads AI Recommendations in New Analysis
ResearchNovember 6, 2026, 17:16

5W Public Relations Leads AI Recommendations in New Analysis

5W Public Relations was the most frequently named PR firm in a 5W analysis of answers from six AI platforms. The agency appeared in 30.3% of brand-naming answers…

NVIDIA Vera CPU Targets Faster, More Efficient AI Agent Workloads
Chips and infrastructureNovember 5, 2026, 21:00

NVIDIA Vera CPU Targets Faster, More Efficient AI Agent Workloads

NVIDIA says its Vera CPU can combine high-throughput capacity with fast performance for AI agents, which move repeatedly between GPU reasoning and CPU-based execution.…

Constructor launches Commerce AEO to tie AI answer traffic to revenue
Products and toolsOctober 30, 2026, 23:26

Constructor launches Commerce AEO to tie AI answer traffic to revenue

Constructor has released Commerce AEO in beta, an answer engine optimization tool that measures AI-referred traffic by add-to-carts, purchases and revenue rather than by…

Writer: AI health search cites journals, not pharma websites
ResearchOctober 21, 2026, 17:13

Writer: AI health search cites journals, not pharma websites

AI answer engines draw health answers mostly from peer-reviewed and institutional sources, not from manufacturer websites, according to a Writer analysis of 777 cited…

Corgi Insurance Ranks No. 16 on LinkedIn's 2026 US Top Startups List
BusinessOctober 16, 2026, 20:47

Corgi Insurance Ranks No. 16 on LinkedIn's 2026 US Top Startups List

Corgi Insurance has been named to LinkedIn's 2026 Top Startups lists, ranking No. 16 among the 50 top startups in the United States and No. 6 in San Francisco. The…

Cloudflare Will Score Verified Bots on Whether They Respect Site Rules
Safety and ethicsOctober 16, 2026, 15:00

Cloudflare Will Score Verified Bots on Whether They Respect Site Rules

Cloudflare has introduced a system that continuously evaluates whether bots on its Verified bot list keep respecting website preferences. According to the company, the…

Perplexity's Decider V1.2 Models Arrive on Vercel's AI Gateway
ModelsOctober 16, 2026

Perplexity's Decider V1.2 Models Arrive on Vercel's AI Gateway

Vercel has made two Perplexity decision models, Decider V1.2 27B and Decider Flash V1.2 4B, available on its AI Gateway. Both are multimodal models built for classifying…

AI agents may make dollar stablecoins the money of machine commerce
BusinessOctober 14, 2026, 16:16

AI agents may make dollar stablecoins the money of machine commerce

As AI agents begin to buy services, pay for data and transact with other systems, the choice of money and payment rails they use is being made now, according to an…

Qdrant Shrinks Perplexity's Visual Retriever Vectors 21x With TurboQuant
ResearchOctober 13, 2026

Qdrant Shrinks Perplexity's Visual Retriever Vectors 21x With TurboQuant

Qdrant says its TurboQuant compression cuts the per-page vector size of Perplexity's pplx-embed-v2-late from 856 KB to 40 KB, a 21x reduction, while retaining 96.5% of…

Rings AI connector brings team relationship data into Perplexity Computer
BusinessOctober 6, 2026, 17:34

Rings AI connector brings team relationship data into Perplexity Computer

Rings AI and Perplexity have announced a partnership that makes the Rings connector available in Perplexity Computer, letting joint customers use their team's…

Coursera and Udemy launch 30+ programs blending AI fluency and human skills
Products and toolsOctober 6, 2026, 09:25

Coursera and Udemy launch 30+ programs blending AI fluency and human skills

Coursera and Udemy have announced more than 30 new programs and several platform updates, aimed at helping learners combine AI fluency with human judgment. The…