Perplexity AI Updates: May 24, 2026

1. Perplexity open sources Bumblebee, a read only supply chain scanner for developer endpoints

Perplexity. Perplexity released Bumblebee, an internal tool turned Apache 2.0 project that inventories packages, editor extensions, browser extensions, and AI tool configs on macOS and Linux developer machines without executing install scripts or invoking package managers. The Go binary ships with zero non stdlib dependencies and reads directly from lockfiles and metadata across npm, pnpm, Yarn, Bun, PyPI, Go modules, RubyGems, Composer, and MCP configuration files, emitting structured NDJSON records with high, medium, or low confidence levels. Three scan profiles cover baseline inventories of global package roots and toolchains, project sweeps of configured development directories, and deep sweeps of operator supplied roots during active incident response. Source

2. Aravind Srinivas frames Bumblebee as part of a security engineering push for Perplexity Computer in the enterprise

Perplexity. CEO Aravind Srinivas positioned the Bumblebee release as part of a continuous investment in security engineering needed to embed Perplexity Computer and similar agentic tools inside enterprises, with the company running these tools inside agentic sandboxes wired into security workflows. The blog post describes Bumblebee as one component of a broader pipeline where Perplexity Computer tracks emerging threats, human analysts review catalog updates, and Bumblebee checks whether exposed components appear across developer endpoints. Security teams can download it, run it against their own catalog of bad versions, and feed results into whatever response workflow they already operate. Source