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Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 days ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.

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[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

AI startup Perplexity has offered Google $34.5 billion to buy the Chrome browser. The price might be below evaluation, but the company may be forced to sell the browser at the request of U.S. authorities as part of a case in which it was found guilty of being a monopoly.

https://x.com/80Level/status/1955488788861555082

Might as well be wanting all that juicy personal information from which to mine not only for profit but also for sending a SWAT team through the door without a court order and a search warrant. Or, sending a Hellfire missile through a window of a house somewhere in Pakistan.