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Google Gets an Astounding $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome Browser From AI Startup Perplexity


Perplexity AI made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid to buy Google’s Chrome browser.

In a surprise move, Perplexity AI made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid to buy Google’s Chrome, per reports by WSJ and CNBC Tuesday, coming as a legal ruling is pending in an antitrust case the internet giant lost that could force it to divest the browser. The Justice Department is seeking to force Google to divest Chrome as a proposed remedy after the internet giant lost an antitrust case last year. A federal court ruled that Google was a monopoly and broke the law by inking multibillion-dollar deals to make its search engine the default on web browsers and smartphones including devices from Apple and Samsung.

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