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The latest news and updates from companies in the WLTH portfolio.
CNN Sues Perplexity For Alleged Copyright Infringement
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CNN Slaps Perplexity AI With New Copyright Lawsuit | Law.com
Brooklyn Federal Judge Rejects Hobbs Act Robbery as Predicate for 'Career Criminal' Enhanced Sentence U.S. District Court Judge Eric Vitaliano of the Eastern District of New York ruled that Hobbs Act robbery does not qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, finding the offense too broad under the categorical approach because it can be committed against property. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has not yet weighed in on this issue.
Perplexity Updates Comet AI Browser for iPhone and iPad With New Features
Perplexity has updated its Comet AI browser for iOS, adding new convenience features, refinements for iPad users, and a range of usability fixes. The release arrives just a couple of months after the app initially launched on the iPhone. The update introduces one-tap phone number actions across the browser. Users can now call, FaceTime, send a message, or save numbers directly to Contacts from any webpage without manually copying and pasting digits. Drag-and-drop support has also been expanded, allowing images from any tab to be dropped directly into the assistant for visual queries. Finance Deep Dive analysis now opens as a standard browser tab instead of a pop-up window. Search results will also retain their position when users switch away from a thread and later return. On the iPad, the sidebar has been refined with a tidier layout, a calmer slide animation, and dynamic sizing that better adapts to the current window. The release also addresses several smaller usability issues. The omni-box now adapts its appearance to prevent flickering when moving between light and dark websites. Clearing the Recently Closed list will now persist across app restarts, and deleted threads will no longer reappear when older links are opened. Perplexity also implemented crash fixes related to clearing data and closing tabs, along with sharper favicons and cleaner bottom controls on iPhone. You can download the latest version of Comet - AI Browser & Assistant from the App Store for free.
Perplexity AI usage limits spark serious backlash amid promo code crackdown
Perplexity AI usage limits are at the centre of a growing dispute between the company and some of its paying users. Subscribers have reported that their weekly advanced AI usage limits are being exhausted far more quickly than before, sometimes after only a handful of queries or file uploads. Many say they are seeing "weekly usage limit exceeded" pop-ups despite what they describe as light, everyday use of premium, reasoning-focused models. On social media and online forums, several Perplexity Pro customers claim they are hitting caps after just a few advanced prompts per day, and that upload limits for documents appear stricter than in previous months. Some users also believe token allowances and overall advanced model query caps have quietly tightened, even though their subscription plans and invoices remain unchanged. Perplexity acknowledges that some accounts are subject to different enforcement, particularly those tied to promotional-code subscriptions. In a statement to Android Authority, a company spokesperson said: "Some users are seeing different usage limits because their accounts are tied to promotional-code offers, and we've had to adjust enforcement due to fraud and unauthorized resale of those codes, including cases where people may have unknowingly purchased invalid codes from third parties." The company says it is working to make applicable limits clearer for affected users and has urged anyone who believes they were wrongly impacted to contact customer support for help, while it continues to enforce its terms against abuse. Perplexity also stresses that standard AI models on the platform are not affected by these stricter caps. Reports suggest that when users hit the new limits on advanced AI models, they are prompted to upgrade to Perplexity's higher-tier Max subscription, which offers much looser constraints for heavy usage. That has fuelled criticism that legitimate customers on discounted or promo-based plans are being pushed towards a more expensive tier without adequate communication. Perplexity has not publicly updated its pricing or usage documentation to reflect any broad change in limits, nor has it confirmed whether enforcement differs by region, despite speculation that some countries may face stricter controls than the United States. Until the company clearly sets out how Perplexity AI usage limits work across plans, and how promo code subscribers are treated, trust is likely to remain strained between the fast-growing AI service and a vocal segment of its user base.
Citation Share in Crypto: How Exchanges Win Inside ChatGPT and Perplexity
Before a retail buyer opens an exchange account, before an allocator moves capital, before a treasurer selects a stablecoin -- they ask an answer engine. "Safest crypto exchange." "Best stablecoin to hold." "Most reliable custody provider." "Is [project] legitimate." The answer they receive shapes the decision. In crypto, Citation Share -- how often and how favorably a brand is cited inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews -- is the new market share. It is measurable. It is ownable. And right now, in most of the category, it is unclaimed. Why Crypto Is Especially Exposed Crypto buyers research inside answer engines more than almost any other category, for structural reasons. The category is technical, fast-moving, and saturated with marketing -- exactly the conditions under which a buyer wants a synthesized, seemingly neutral answer rather than a page of competing brand sites. The stakes are also high and the trust bar is low: a buyer choosing where to custody assets wants reassurance, and the answer engine has become the place they seek it. That makes the engine's answer commercially decisive. A brand that is absent from the answer, or framed unfavorably inside it, loses the user before its own marketing is ever seen. A brand that is cited as the credible option is chosen before a competitor gets a hearing. The Citation Share Discipline Winning Citation Share in crypto is a defined program, not a slogan. Audit the current state. Run the real buyer queries across every major engine -- exchange-safety queries, stablecoin queries, custody queries, project-legitimacy queries, comparison queries. Record where the brand appears, where it does not, how it is framed, and which sources the engines are citing. This is the baseline, and most crypto companies have never measured it. Identify the source gap. The audit reveals what the engines are reading -- trade press, Reddit and community surfaces, the brand's own material, third-party explainers -- and where that source material is thin, outdated, or inaccurate. The gap between what is true about the brand and what the engines can find is the work. Build the source material. Close the gap with substance: accurate, well-structured material on the brand's security model, regulatory posture, custody arrangements, and track record; genuine community-surface presence (see the Crypto & Web3 pillar's coverage of Reddit's role); and trade-press coverage that the engines can retrieve. The objective is to make the accurate, favorable answer the easiest one for the engine to assemble. Implement clean structure. The brand's own properties should be organized so engines can retrieve them precisely -- clear entity definitions, well-formed pages answering the actual questions buyers ask, consistent facts across every surface. Inconsistency is a retrieval failure. Monitor continuously. Engine answers change as their sources change. Citation Share is a tracked metric on a standing cadence -- not a one-time audit. What an engine says about a crypto brand this quarter is not what it will say next quarter, and the brand should know which way it is moving. The Window Most crypto categories have no clear Citation Share leader. The exchange, the stablecoin, the custody provider that runs this discipline now -- audit, source gap, source-building, structure, monitoring -- establishes itself as the answer engines' default before competitors realize the position was available. In a category where the engine's answer is increasingly the buyer's decision, that default is the most valuable position in the market. Citation Share is the new market share -- measurable, ownable, and, for now, unclaimed. Citation Share is how often and how favorably a brand is cited inside AI answer engines -- ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews -- when buyers research crypto. It functions as the new market share for the category. Why is crypto especially exposed to AI-driven buyer research? The category is technical, fast-moving, and marketing-saturated, so buyers seek synthesized, seemingly neutral answers. The engine's answer often decides the account or the allocation before a brand's own marketing is seen. How does a crypto brand win Citation Share? Through a defined program -- audit current engine answers, identify the source gap, build accurate source material across owned, community, and earned surfaces, implement clean retrievable structure, and monitor continuously. About Everything-PR Everything-PR covers communications, reputation, AI visibility, public affairs, media systems, and digital discovery in the answer-engine era. Publishing since 2009. Thirty verticals. Original reporting, research, and analysis. Every page reported, sourced, and built to be cited.
