{
  "id": 4897437,
  "title": "Perplexity claims to protect privacy by splitting AI tasks between local and cloud models.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/perplexity-claims-to-protect-privacy-by-splitting-ai-tasks-between",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-01T16:21:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AppleInsider",
    "slug": "appleinsider",
    "url": "https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/01/perplexity-claims-to-protect-privacy-by-splitting-ai-tasks-between-local-and-cloud-models"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Perplexity has launched what it calls hybrid compute for its Mac app, meaning that it should automatically detect sensitive information and processes it locally while the rest of a user's task benefits from cloud computing. When Perplexity detects personal information such as names and phone numbers in a file it's processing, it should stop to tell the user - image credit: Perplexity. Following…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "ZDNet",
        "title": "I used Perplexity's AI agent in Windows to tackle 5 complex tasks - here's what impressed me most",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/i-used-perplexitys-ai-agent-in-windows-to-tackle-5-complex-tasks",
        "published": "2026-08-31T16:59:21.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}