Computer was launched by Perplexity back in February to offer users an always-on AI agent that can run autonomously to complete tasks whether you’re at the keyboard or not. Computer took the OpenClaw approach,

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An analysis of common licensing frameworks for open-weight AI models, including guidance on navigating the complexities of using and distributing open-weight AI models and why traditional open source software (OSS) licensing concepts often do not apply.

Perplexity AI, the fast-growing search startup now valued at $20 billion, unveiled what it calls the first hybrid local-server inference orchestrator at Computex 2026 on Monday night, demonstrating software that autonomously decides — in real time and ...

Perplexity AI launched Personal Computer for Windows on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, extending its agentic desktop platform from Mac to the operating system that powers roughly 1.4 billion devices worldwide. The rollout — initially limited to subscribers of ...

Chrome’s automatic Gemini Nano installation writes a file called weights.bin to a folder most people have never opened and wouldn’t think to check. Chrome has been running an experiment on its users’ hard drives. Since at least April 2026, the ...

Reporting from May 2026 accurately claimed that Google Chrome silently installed a 4-gigabyte artificial intelligence model on users' devices without consent, and that the model reinstalls itself if deleted. We found the claim to be mostly true, but with ...