Squawk Pod A New AI Browser & Jobs Friday without Jobs Data 10/3/25
Oct 3, 2025
Austan Goolsbee, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, discusses the impact of missing labor market data during the government shutdown and its influence on monetary policy. Meanwhile, Aravind Srinivas, Founder and CEO of Perplexity, unveils Comet, an AI browser designed as a personal assistant. He explores its capabilities in handling email and calendars, data privacy concerns, and the challenges of integrating advanced AI models. Goolsbee also highlights the economic implications of relying on alternative data sources amid uncertainty.
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Comet As A Background Personal Assistant
- Aravind Srinivas describes Comet as a personal assistant that orchestrates multiple models to act autonomously.
- He recounts using browser history locally and background AI drafting emails and scheduling while you sleep.
Limit Data Ingestion For AI Assistants
- Connect AI assistants to your email and calendar selectively and keep sensitive data local.
- Pull context on demand instead of indexing entire inboxes to balance usefulness and privacy.
Orchestrating Multiple Models Is Crucial
- Building agentic assistants requires orchestrating specialized models for reasoning, context retrieval, synthesis, and tool use.
- Users will care about end-to-end performance, not which specific model runs each task.