
Yahoo Uses Anthropic Claude to Challenge Google in Search
Apollo-owned Yahoo has launched Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Anthropic Claude, deploying it to 250 million US users as a direct challenge to Google, Perplexity, and ChatGPT.

Apollo-owned Yahoo has launched Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Anthropic Claude, deploying it to 250 million US users as a direct challenge to Google, Perplexity, and ChatGPT.

A practical guide to picking the right AI model for your needs, comparing ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot across writing, coding, research, and more.

At Ask 2026, Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats announced a shift from Anthropic's MCP toward APIs and CLIs, citing high context usage and authentication friction, alongside the launch of their multi-model Agent API.

Perplexity Computer orchestrates 19 AI models to run complex multi-step tasks in the background - impressive research depth, punishing credit costs.

Zenity Labs found that a malicious calendar invite could hijack Perplexity's Comet browser into reading local files and exfiltrating their contents to an attacker-controlled server - no clicks required.

Perplexity launched Computer, a $200-per-month autonomous agent platform that orchestrates 19 AI models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI - staking the company's pivot from search engine to digital labor on infrastructure it rents from potential competitors.