July 18, 2026

Perplexity Search Gets Smarter with Automatic Media Selection

Full archive memo · 3 app sections.

Perplexity shipped a smart search update that automatically picks the right media for your results.

Perplexity

The app now automatically decides whether to show you images, videos, or both to best answer your question.

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent .

ChatGPT

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around.

On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into what the lawsuit could mean for OpenAI’s own hardware ambitions and IPO.

Theresa Loconsolo is an audio producer at TechCrunch focusing on Equity, the network’s flagship podcast.

Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code