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Artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Perplexity has made a surprise $34.5bn (£25.6bn) takeover offer for Google’s Chrome internet browser. Moving Chrome to an independent operator committed to user safety would benefit the public, Perplexity said in a letter to Sundar Pichai, the boss of Google’s owner Alphabet. Google’s dominance of the search engine and online advertising market has come under intense …

AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser  Reuters Perplexity offers to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion  CNBC Perplexity Says It’s Made a Bid to Buy Google’s Chrome Browser  The Information AI upstart Perplexity makes $34.5B offer for Google’s Chrome  Axios AI Startup Perplexity Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google’s Chrome Browser  Bloomberg Source link

The Perplexity app in the Apple App Store on a smartphone arranged in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, June 1, 2025. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser, CNBC confirmed on Tuesday. That figure is higher than Perplexity’s current valuation, but the company said …

AI Startup Perplexity Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google’s Chrome Browser  Bloomberg.com Perplexity offers to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion  CNBC AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser  Yahoo Finance Exclusive | Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome  The Wall Street Journal AI firm Perplexity makes $34.5B bid for Google’s Chrome browser: WSJ (GOOG:NASDAQ)  Seeking Alpha …

Cloudflare: Perplexity AI Acts Like North Korean Hackers, Ignores Scraping Blocks  PCMag UK Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives  The Cloudflare Blog Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it  Yahoo Finance AI company Perplexity is sneaking to get around blocks on crawlers, Cloudflare alleges  CyberScoop An AI Data Trap Catches Perplexity Impersonating Google  Business Insider Source …

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler gone wild. Many people came to Perplexity’s defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable. And this is …

Microsoft has announced a brand-new overhaul coming to the Edge web browser today that transforms it into an AI-powered experience dubbed “Copilot Mode.” The company says this is a new experimental feature that’s designed to make browsing the web easier with AI as a collaborator. “It doesn’t just give you endless tabs to sift through but works with you as …

Aravind Srinivas wanted a simple answer. If Google had given him one, things might have turned out differently—for Srinivas and for Google. It was the fall of 2022, weeks before OpenAI would debut its viral AI chatbot, ChatGPT. Srinivas, then 28, was an ambitious AI researcher with a PhD from UC Berkeley and prestigious internships at OpenAI and Google’s AI …

Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Nvidia-backed startup Perplexity, has unveiled ambitions for the company’s latest product, an AI-powered browser named Comet. Speaking on a recent episode of The Verge’s “Decoder” podcast, Srinivas claimed the tool is designed to automate substantial portions of work traditionally handled by recruiters and executive assistants, and can quickly replace them. Describing Comet as more than just …

Perplexity has introduced a bold new entry into the browser landscape. Comet reimagines the browsing experience by embedding artificial intelligence at its core and reshaping how we search, read, and interact with information online. I’ll explore how Comet works, what sets it apart, and why it might be the first browser built for the future. Related I replaced Google Search …