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Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to rival Cursor and Claude Code

Perplexity wants a piece of the AI coding boom. The San Francisco search startup has built an internal coding tool, codenamed “Teammate,” and may launch it publicly later, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Its own engineers have used the tool since May.

The company made its name with an AI search engine that takes on Google. A coding product would push it onto very different ground, closer to Cursor, Anthropic and OpenAI. All three already run widely used coding tools.

What “Teammate” does

Teammate aims to run software projects end to end, according to an internal announcement that Business Insider viewed. “It’s built for long-horizon engineering work: owning projects, investigating issues, and monitoring services,” the note reads.

Screenshots show engineers handing it real jobs, such as hunting bugs in internal systems. The tool stays model-agnostic, the person said, so it does not sit on...

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Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic

In Brief 1:37 PM PDT · July 8, 2026 Google’s SynthID system has been used to debunk a high-profile AI-generated hoax image, in a rare but significant win for the system. Earlier this week, a picture circulated online that seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes

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Building an AI Agent for Oracle HCM Journeys: What I Learned Along the Way

Some areas in Oracle are configured once and rarely touched again. Journeys are not one of those areas. They may require regular updates and additions as the organization grows, and when those needs come up, HR teams can often feel lost on where to start. That is what led me

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The FTC Settlement With John Deere Is a Huge Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement

On Wednesday, the US Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with tractor manufacturer John Deere over a 2025 lawsuit that accused the company of behavior that “unlawfully acquired and maintained monopoly power in markets for repair services for Deere farm equipment.” The full statement lays out obligations for John Deere’

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With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing

The race to produce more chips is on, and Europe is in. ASML, the Dutch company that has a near-monopoly on manufacturing the machines used for chipmaking, may soon no longer be an isolated success story. Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor

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