The Browser Company’s AI browser now has a $20 subscription
The Browser Company — the makers of the Arc browser — just launched a $20 per month subscription to its
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Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search
Google says its AI search features aren’t tanking website traffic despite recent reports suggesting otherwise. In a blog post published
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Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites
The AI search startup Perplexity is allegedly skirting restrictions meant to stop its AI web crawlers from accessing certain websites,
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Google backtracks on plans to deactivate shortened goo.gl links
Google is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl
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Opera is filing a complaint over Microsoft’s tricks that push you to use Edge
Microsoft has used a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge in Windows
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Google’s AI Mode update adds even more tools for students
Users will soon be able to upload PDFs to AI Mode, too. | Image: Google Google is bringing a bunch
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Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
Google will officially deprecate links generated with its URL shortening tool next month. On August 25th, 2025, all links in
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This ‘violently racist’ hacker claims to be the source of the New York Times’ Mamdani scoop
The ultimate source for The New York Times’ story about Zohran Mamdani’s college application is an open secret. It’s an
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Perplexity’s Comet is the AI browser Google wants
Perplexity has just launched its agentic answer to Google Chrome — it’s called Comet, and it knocked out a slate
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Perplexity’s CEO on why the browser is AI’s killer app
Hello, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line newsletter.
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