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Airtel's free Perplexity offer ended in January. Usage has fallen since

Airtel gave its customers a year of Perplexity Pro free from July 2025, calling it a ₹17,000 value for its 360 million customers. New sign-ups closed on 16 January 2026. Sensor Tower estimates Perplexity's monthly users in India went from about 2.6 million before the offer to a peak of 22 million in October 2025, then about 14 million by July 2026.

Who is speaking: Airtel, which sells telecom. Perplexity, which sells AI search. Sensor Tower, which sells app data. Label: Claimed for the offer terms. Inferred for the user numbers. Source: Airtel release, 17 July 2025. Perplexity help centre. TechCrunch reporting Sensor Tower, 18 August 2026.

ChatGPT has a dozen indexes and five live experiments. Your prompt list should have no edits

The engine under your AI visibility number is being rebuilt in public. The only part of the measurement you control is the list of questions you ask it, and most of the advice on writing that list comes from the companies selling the tracking. Method · 21 September 2026 On 4

Cloudflare spent a year trying to split Googlebot. It settled for a line in robots.txt

On 15 September the company retired its one-click AI-blocking switch. What replaced it lets Google, Apple and Microsoft keep crawling, on a promise. Every other company's training bots stay locked out, and one name is missing from the announcement altogether. Engines · 16 September 2026 Somewhere in

Only 4 of 94 AI visibility tools mention Hindi. None say where their India prompts come from

We read the public pages of 94 AI visibility tools on 13 September 2026. Four name Hindi or Hinglish anywhere on those pages. Ten have an Indian address, rupee pricing or Indian clients. Not one, Indian or global, says on the pages we read how the prompts it runs for

Profound Raises $180 Million Series D

Bloomberg reported this morning that Profound, the New York company that tracks how brands show up in AI answers, has closed a $180 million Series D. The round values the company at $1.8 billion post-money and was led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins. As always, every number

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ChatGPT has a dozen indexes and five live experiments. Your prompt list should have no edits

Cloudflare spent a year trying to split Googlebot. It settled for a line in robots.txt

Only 4 of 94 AI visibility tools mention Hindi. None say where their India prompts come from

Profound Raises $180 Million Series D