Perplexity is a company that builds AI-powered search engines and answer services. Its flagship product is the search service Perplexity, which provides sourced citations alongside answers to conversational queries, and it has recently been expanding into task-execution tools with Perplexity Computer. According to reports from August 2026, Perplexity Computer introduced a feature that executes tasks simply by being CC'd on an email.
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15
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2026.08.21 – 2026.09.19 · High 13 · Low 32 · Now 15
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