{"id":902756,"date":"2025-02-04T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=902756"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:39:29","slug":"perplexity-ai-ceo-aravind-srinivas-confirms-bid-for-tiktok-laced-with-us-govt-stake-social-media-reacts-to-cryptic-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/04\/perplexity-ai-ceo-aravind-srinivas-confirms-bid-for-tiktok-laced-with-us-govt-stake-social-media-reacts-to-cryptic-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas confirms bid for TikTok laced with US govt stake; social media reacts to cryptic post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas has confirmed his company\u2019s bid for Chinese-owned TikTok&#8217;s United States business, Fox Business reported. Srinivas told the publication the deal would \u201ccheck all the boxes for investors and President Donald Trump, including an ownership stake for the US\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Social media reactions were mixed, with some questioning the decision, some doubting Preplexity&#8217;s funding ability to go through with the buy, and others posting joyous memes, celebrating the potential end to the conflict over TikTok US&#8217; Chinese ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas has confirmed his company\u2019s bid for Chinese-owned TikTok&#8217;s United States business, Fox Business reported. Srinivas told the publication the deal would \u201ccheck all the boxes for investors and President Donald Trump, including an ownership stake for the US\u201d. Social media reactions were mixed, with some questioning the decision, some doubting Preplexity&#8217;s funding ability to go through with the buy, and others posting joyous memes, celebrating the potential end to the conflict over TikTok US&#8217; Chinese ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}