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Perplexity News 09/30/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Perplexity Releases a Contextual Embedding Model That Retrieves Evidence, Not Just Answers

Perplexity published research on September 30, 2026 introducing pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a 9B-parameter embedding model trained to retrieve supporting context alongside answers, plus Context-bench, a new benchmark for evaluating that capability.
Perplexity News 09/29/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Perplexity Computer Adds Automations for Standing, Ongoing Work

Perplexity launched Automations in Computer, letting the agent run recurring assignments on a schedule or in response to events in Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Linear, and GitHub, while remembering prior runs.
Perplexity News 09/28/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Perplexity's Agent API Adds Reusable Profiles, Versioned Skills, and Managed Connectors

Perplexity upgraded its Agent API so teams can configure an agent once and reuse it everywhere, bundling model settings, tools, and instructions into versioned Profiles and Skills with centrally managed connectors.
Perplexity News 09/24/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Perplexity Brings Portable Computer to AMD Ryzen AI Max PCs

Perplexity expanded its local-first Portable Computer agent beyond NVIDIA RTX GPUs to AMD Ryzen AI Max Series systems, including the Ryzen AI Halo developer platform.
Perplexity News 09/23/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Perplexity Red-Teams Its Own Agent Sandbox, Finds and Fixes Network Bypasses

Perplexity's Secure Intelligence Institute tested nine AI models against the SPACE sandbox behind Perplexity Computer, finding no VM-to-host escapes but four models bypassed network confinement before fixes were deployed.
Perplexity News 09/17/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Perplexity Computer Adds Effort Mode for Model Selection

A new four-level slider โ€” Light, Standard, High, and Ultra โ€” lets Perplexity Computer users set how much reasoning depth and model power a task deserves, while Perplexity handles the actual model choice behind the scenes.
Perplexity News 09/14/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Perplexity Brings Portable Computer's Local-First AI to Windows

Perplexity extended Portable Computer to Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX GPUs, letting Pro and Max subscribers run AI tasks entirely on-device before optionally escalating to the cloud.
Perplexity News 09/01/2026 Read AI Rating: High

Perplexity Launches Hybrid Compute on Mac, Splitting AI Tasks Between Cloud and Device

Perplexity introduced Hybrid Compute for Mac, which routes sensitive data to local models running on Apple silicon while the cloud handles the rest, with a privacy gate controlling what can leave the device.
Perplexity News 09/01/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Perplexity Announces PII-TRACE Benchmark and PII-Tracer Model for On-Device Privacy Detection

Perplexity unveiled PII-TRACE, a 13-language benchmark for detecting personal data across multi-turn conversations, along with PII-Tracer, a compact 0.6B model designed to catch sensitive information before it leaves a device.