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Mumbai: The fierce row over Indian immigrants and H-1B visas that’s roiling Donald Trump’s team even before he takes office misses the point and isn’t borne out by data, said Aravind Srinivas, founder of Perplexity AI. Illegal immigration is the real issue, said the IIT graduate who’s worked at DeepMind and OpenAI, and is himself in the US on an H-1B visa. “Clearly, it surprised everybody online and it's not exactly data driven--the claims that the H-1B or Indian immigrants are taking away the jobs of laid-off American tech workers,” he told ET in an interview. “Indians are also being...

CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers. The NYT Tech Guild announced its strike Monday, after setting November 4 as its deadline months earlier. The workers represented provide software support and data analysis for the Times, on the business side of the outlet. They have been asking for an annual 2.5% wage increase and to cement a current two days per week in-office expectation, among other things. “But the company has decided that our members aren’t worth...

Try this out. I am talking about nothing else but using Perplexity as an internet search engine. I have used Bing for searches for five years. Due to google being politically biased to the left and too PC for me https://www.perplexity.ai/ Perplexity pus the other AI searches to shame. Plus it is very well formatted to ask follow up questions. If you sign up for a free account, it will keep an archive of your Perplexity queries searches

https://www.perplexity.ai/ I have been using Bing search for 5 years. It is almost as good as google but less politicized. When you use Bing search, you are pushed into using their AI search that is called Copilot. Which I liked, but this dumbass robot started to refuse certain searches that libs find controversial So now I use >>>>> this AI https://www.perplexity.ai/

Perplexity, a startup going after Google’s dominant position in web search, has won backing from Jeff Bezos and venture capitalists betting that artificial intelligence will upend the way people find information online. Started less than two years ago, Perplexity has fewer than 40 employees and is based out of a San Francisco co-working space. The company’s product, which it calls an answer engine, is used by about 10 million people monthly. Those ingredients were enough to persuade Institutional Venture Partners, Bezos and other tech executives to invest $74 million in the company, the largest sum raised by an internet search...

Panetta, 7 others named to monitor Catholic church leadersItems compiled from Tribune news services July 25, 2002 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Former congressman Leon Panetta was among eight people appointed Wednesday to a review board that will monitor Catholic Church leaders in the United States as they implement a new clerical sex abuse policy. The appointments were made by Bishop Wilton Gregory of Belleville, Ill., who is president of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Besides Panetta, he named: William Burleigh, chairman and former CEO of E.W. Scripps Co.; Nicholas Cafardi, Duquesne University law school dean and ex-legal counsel for the Pittsburgh...