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Cale Hunt

"A perfect trust chain gone rogue" — Perplexity's $200 AI-powered Comet browser fails basic security tests

Perplexity's landing page to download its new Comet AI-powered web browser.

Perplexity, the AI startup that wants to pay publishers for their scraped content, launched a new agentic web browser called "Comet" in July. It arrived with an impressive $200-per-month subscription cost, available for Perplexity Max and some Perplexity Pro subscribers.

According to Perplexity, "The security features, privacy, and compliance standards your business demands are already built into the core of Comet." Now, the AI-powered browser is coming under fire for security vulnerabilities discovered by Brave and Guardio (via Tom's Hardware).

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