{"id":940494,"date":"2025-06-21T11:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940494"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:24:48","slug":"apple-talking-to-ai-startup-perplexity-claims-report-and-why-it-pulled-down-google-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/21\/apple-talking-to-ai-startup-perplexity-claims-report-and-why-it-pulled-down-google-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple talking to AI startup Perplexity, claims report and why it pulled down Google shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. is exploring a potential acquisition of AI startup Perplexity AI to bolster its artificial intelligence capabilities, according to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter. The discussions, led by Adrian Perica, Apple\u2019s head of mergers and acquisitions, alongside services chief Eddy Cue and key AI decision-makers, are in early stages and may not result in a formal offer, the sources said, speaking anonymously due to the private nature of the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Apple buying Perplexity will be the company&#8217;s largest-acquisition so far<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. is exploring a potential acquisition of AI startup Perplexity AI to bolster its artificial intelligence capabilities, according to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter. The discussions, led by Adrian Perica, Apple\u2019s head of mergers and acquisitions, alongside services chief Eddy Cue and key AI decision-makers, are in early stages and may not result in a formal offer, the sources said, speaking anonymously due to the private nature of the talks. Apple buying Perplexity will be the company&#8217;s largest-acquisition so far<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940494","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=940494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}