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Comet is now on iOS. Perplexity’s AI browser, which debuted on desktop last summer at a price that made most people do a double-take, is now free on mobile, with optional paid tiers starting at $20 a month. It was supposed to launch on March 11. The team pushed it back a week. It went live yesterday. Here is what it actually is. Comet blends a traditional browser with an AI assistant that can summarize pages, answer questions, and carry out tasks on a user’s behalf. The agentic approach, where the AI does not just respond but actively navigates, clicks,…

MIT researchers have spent more than a decade studying techniques that enable robots to find and manipulate hidden objects by “seeing” through obstacles. Their methods utilize surface-penetrating wireless signals that reflect off concealed items.Now, the researchers are leveraging generative artificial intelligence models to overcome a longstanding bottleneck that limited the precision of prior approaches. The result is a new method that produces more accurate shape reconstructions, which could improve a robot’s ability to reliably grasp and manipulate objects that are blocked from view.This new technique builds a partial reconstruction of a hidden object from reflected wireless signals and fills in…

Poopee’s indoor grass patches are even drawing franchise enquiries from across Southeast Asia What do you do when your dog refuses to use a pee pad, your schedule won’t allow constant trips downstairs, and your carpet is slowly turning into a wreck day after day? For 32-year-old Royce Tan, the answer was simple: start a company called Poopee—and bring a patch of real grass straight into the living room as an indoor potty solution. It all started with his own struggles at home. Royce’s dogs were grass-trained, but as they aged, daily trips downstairs became increasingly difficult. Plastic pee pads…

Hello Cyber Builders 🖖Every February, Mike Privette drops his State of the Cybersecurity Market report on Return on Security. Four years running. Text-first. Data-driven. No logo slides, no vendor spin.This year, I asked Mike to walk me through it.Mike spent nearly two decades building security programs at banks, insurers, and enterprises before turning his practitioner lens on the market itself. Today, he studies how money moves through cybersecurity — who’s funding what, who’s acquiring whom, and what it signals about where security is actually heading. That background is why investors, startups, and governments trust his read. He publishes the data…

Google is stepping up its AI game on desktop, with a dedicated Gemini app for Mac now in testing, and it could bring a major new capability called Desktop Intelligence. According to a report by Bloomberg, Google has started privately testing an early version of the Gemini Mac app with select users. The move is part of a broader push to compete more directly with desktop AI apps like ChatGPT and Claude, both of which already offer native Mac experiences. Google Blog The current version is still early and doesn’t include all planned features, but testing suggests Google is aiming…

San Francisco startup Nooks hosted a panel in Seattle last month focused on vertical AI agents. From left: Chinmay Barve, vice president of engineering at Nooks; Nikhil Cheerla, CTO at Nooks; Sharbani Roy, VP of AI Services at Arm; and Joe Duffy, CEO and founder at Pulumi. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the people, companies, and ideas behind AI agents. Join us Tuesday, March 24, for our Agents of Transformation event in Seattle.] Just a year ago, AI-powered sales platform Nooks wasn’t using many AI agents, instead relying…

Moxie Marlinspike, the privacy advocate who created the secure communication app Signal and its widely used open source encryption protocol, said this week that his privacy-focused AI platform, Confer, will start incorporating its technology into Meta’s AI systems.Every day, billions of chat messages sent through Signal, Meta’s WhatsApp, and Apple’s Messages are protected by end-to-end encryption. The feature, which makes it impossible for tech companies and anyone other than the sender and recipient to snoop on your messages, has become mainstream over the past decade. As generative AI platforms explode in popularity, though, people are now also exchanging billions of…

It took ChatGPT two and a half years to go from “meme of the month” to one of the most popular services on the Internet.When it was first released, in November 2022, as a front-end for large language models, nobody could have predicted that by mid-2025 it would be something that nearly every profession and almost every internet user would be using on a daily basis.In this article, we will be looking at the most recent ChatGPT statistics as well as general data on the platform’s audience, traffic, revenue, and demographics.We will also be discussing the latest data on ChatGPT…

UK’s Ofcom has fined 4chan a total of £520,000 ($690,000) over the website’s failure to comply with the rules of Online Safety Act 2023. The biggest chunk of the amount came from 4chan’s failure to ensure children cannot encounter pornographic content on its website by implementing an effective age check mechanism. For that violation, the website has received a penalty of £450,000 ($598,000) and an order to apply an age check system by April 2. It carries a daily rate penalty of £500 ($664) until the website is compliant or until June 1, whichever comes sooner.Ofcom also found that 4chan…

Security teams have spent years building identity and access controls for human users and service accounts. But a new category of actor has quietly entered most enterprise environments, and it operates entirely outside those controls. Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent, is now running across engineering organizations at scale. It reads files, executes shell commands, calls external APIs, and connects to third-party integrations called MCP servers. It does all of this autonomously, with the full permissions of the developer who launched it, on the developer’s local machine, before any network-layer security tool can see it. It leaves no audit trail…