🤖 Perplexity AI Introduces “Perplexity Assistant”

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In today’s Daily Report:

• 📱Perplexity AI Introduces “Perplexity Assistant”

• 🎙️Meta’s AI Chief Scientist Predicts “Decade of Robotics”

• 🧩The Infinite Maze That Traps AI Web Crawlers

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

PERPLEXITY AI

📱Perplexity AI Introduces “Perplexity Assistant”

Perplexity AI introduced “Perplexity Assistant,” a free mobile assistant on Android that can draft emails, set reminders, and book dinner reservations.

Key Details:

• It integrates with popular apps such as Uber, YouTube, Spotify, and OpenTable to perform actions through voice commands. It can also access your mobile device’s camera to chat about what you see.

• Imagine trying to learn more about a painting at an art gallery. “Perplexity Assistant” can access your mobile device’s camera to analyze the painting’s style and discuss the artist’s vision with you.

• A Screen Share Function enables “Perplexity Assistant” to see what’s on your mobile device’s screen to help you draft emails or respond to texts.

Why It’s Important:

• “Perplexity Assistant” can help you prepare for interviews, be a late-night study buddy, or be a best friend who gives you opinions on decisions.

• As Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos famously said, “Your margin is my opportunity.” Perplexity AI is capitalizing on the audio quality issues with ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode on Android.

AI OPINIONS

🎙️Meta’s AI Chief Scientist Predicts “Decade of Robotics”

Meta’s AI Chief Scientist, Yann LeCun, predicts that the coming years will become the “decade of robotics.”

Key Details:

• LeCun argues that today’s LLMs, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, aren’t even “smarter than a house cat.”

• They lack basic “house cat” capabilities such as reasoning, planning, long-term memory, and understanding the physical world.

• He believes robotics will fuel the next wave of AI developments through Physical AI, which focuses on building AI systems that understand and interact with the physical world.

• “The physical world is way more complicated than human language,” LeCun said. “We don’t have robots that can do what a cat can do yet.”

Why It’s Important:

• The physical world is complex and chaotic, yet humans have discovered the underlying laws that govern it. For example, Newton’s Laws of Motion explain the relationships between physical objects and the forces acting upon them.

• So, what if AI systems could uncover the underlying laws that govern the physical world through Physical AI and robotics?

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI WEB CRAWLERS

🧩The Infinite Maze That Traps AI Web Crawlers

An anonymous coder developed a clever program that “traps” web crawlers into a never-ending “tar pit” to protect a website’s real content and waste an AI company’s computing resources. It’s called Nepenthes, named after the carnivorous tropical pitcher plants that attract, trap, and consume insects. So, how does it work?

“The typical web crawler doesn’t appear to have a lot of logic. It downloads a URL, and if it sees links to other URLs, it downloads those too. Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself.”

Website owners have struggled to block web crawlers that scrape their content to train LLMs. For context, over 28% of the most actively visited websites constantly restrict web crawlers from scraping their content for AI models.

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💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Botika raises an $8M Seed Round to deploy AI-generated fashion models.

• Neko Health closes a $260M Series B to pioneer preventative healthcare.

• Prophecy secures a $47M Series B1 to build, deploy, and observe data pipelines that accelerate AI developments.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Figma (New York, NY): Product Design Intern, Summer 2025

• NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Industry Marketing Intern, Summer 2025

• SharkNinja (Needham, MA): Mobile App Developer Intern, Summer 2025

• Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): Software Engineer Intern, Data Platforms, Summer 2025

• Rivian (Palo Alto, CA): Engineering Intern, Camera Image Quality, Summer 2025

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