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Perplexity Wants to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 Billion, but That Won't Be Enough

Alphabet still has options to fight the decision in court.

AI startup Perplexity is raising more money at a $20 billion valuation

AI startup Perplexity's valuation rose to $20 billion in fresh funding talks. It's a $2 billion jump from its last fundraise ...

AI search firm Perplexity makes $34.5 billion surprise bid for Google Chrome

Artificial intelligence search company Perplexity has made an unsolicited, $34.5 billion offer to purchase Google’s Chrome ...

Perplexity offers more than twice its total valuation to buy Chrome from Google

There is so much capital floating around in the artificial intelligence sphere currently that even a cash-poor firm like ...

Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it’s raised

Perplexity tells TechCrunch the terms of the offer include a commitment to keep Chrome’s underlying engine, Chromium, open ...

I pit Truth Social's Perplexity-powered Truth AI against Perplexity Pro, here's how that went

I put Truth Social’s new Truth AI up against Perplexity Pro. Despite similar tech, the difference in context might surprise ...
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Perplexity AI Makes Surprise Pick for Best Crypto to Buy Under $1 in 2025: Here's Why It's Neither Dogecoin nor SEI

If you’d asked most traders which crypto under $1 would dominate 2025, the safe bets would have been Dogecoin or SEI. Both have loyal followings, both have esta ...
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Bytes: Week in Review —Nvidia’s new chip deal, Perplexity’s Chrome bid and GPT-5 backlash

Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” ...