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AI Firm Perplexity Offers Services Amid NYT Tech Workers Strike

CosmicTaco · 2024-11-05T08:11:40.960774+05:30

- The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers. - The workers have been asking for an annual 2.5% wage increase and to cement a current two days per week in-office expectation. - The NYT’s publisher, AG Sulzberger, criticized the strike, saying it is troubling that the Tech Guild would try to block this public service at such a consequential moment for our country. - Srinivas offered to step in for the striking workers, a move that was widely criticized on social media. - The Times sent Perplexity a cease and desist letter in October over the startup’s scraping of articles for use by its AI models. Source: [Techcrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/04/perplexity-ceo-offers-ai-companys-services-to-replace-striking-nyt-staff/)

The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers.
The workers have been asking for an annual 2.5% wage increase and to cement a current two days per week in-office expectation.
The NYT’s publisher, AG Sulzberger, criticized the strike, saying it is troubling that the Tech Guild would try to block this public service at such a consequential moment for our country.
Srinivas offered to step in for the striking workers, a move that was widely criticized on social media.
The Times sent Perplexity a cease and desist letter in October over the startup’s scraping of articles for use by its AI models.

Source: Techcrunch