{"id":903813,"date":"2025-02-07T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T05:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=903813"},"modified":"2025-02-07T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T05:52:15","slug":"perplexity-ai-ceo-aravind-srinivas-challenges-elon-musk-on-500-billion-usaid-funding-stop-me-if-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/07\/perplexity-ai-ceo-aravind-srinivas-challenges-elon-musk-on-500-billion-usaid-funding-stop-me-if-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas \u2018challenges\u2019 Elon Musk on $500 billion USAID funding: \u2018Stop me if you can\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing crackdown on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, Indian-origin CEO of Perplexity AI, Aravind Srinivas, has thrown a curious challenge to tech billionaire to stop him from raising funds from the federal agency. Elon Musk recently described USAID as a \u201ccriminal organisation\u201d as Trump attempts to shut it down. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering raising $500B from USAID. Funding secured. Stop me if you can @elonmusk What is USAID? [sic]\u201d wrote Srinivas in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing crackdown on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, Indian-origin CEO of Perplexity AI, Aravind Srinivas, has thrown a curious challenge to tech billionaire to stop him from raising funds from the federal agency. Elon Musk recently described USAID as a \u201ccriminal organisation\u201d as Trump attempts to shut it down. \u201cConsidering raising $500B from USAID. Funding secured. Stop me if you can @elonmusk What is USAID? [sic]\u201d wrote Srinivas in a post on X.<\/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-903813","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\/903813","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=903813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}