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AI Startup Perplexity Offers To Buy Google's Chrome Browser for a Whopping $34.5 Billion

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 22:56:59

Perplexity, the AI startup responsible for the eponymous chatbot and LLM-powered search engine, has made a formal bid to purchase Google's Chrome browser. The proposed $34.5 billion deal would eclipse Perplexity's current valuation. In July, the company was valued at $18 billion -- just over half the amount of the proposed bid. The company has said that several interested investors are willing to back the Chrome deal. Perplexity's bid comes after Google lost an antitrust suit initiated by the

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YouTube backlash begins: “Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-26 22:58:05

Tens of thousands of YouTubers are raging against YouTube's plan to use AI to detect underage users in the US. On Tuesday, a Change.org petition rapidly neared its 50,000-signature goal, with tens of thousands hoping that with enough users protesting, the wide rollout of the AI age checks might be stopped. They fear the age checks will make it harder to access content they love while staying anonymous on the platform YouTube's age verification system estimates user ages by interpreting a "vari

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

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-26 23:49:15

In the wake of its big antitrust loss, Google could soon find itself forced to sell one of its crown jewels. Among the government's proposed remedies in the search case is a requirement that Google divest its market-leading Chrome browser, and Perplexity is already throwing its proverbial hat into the ring with a whopping $34.5 billion offer. The problem, however, is that Perplexity doesn't have nearly that much cash. Perplexity has ridden the AI hype wave, with its AI-powered search appearing

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Trump Family–Backed World Liberty Financial Sets Up $1.5 Billion Crypto Treasury

wired.com Joel Khalili 2025-12-26 23:30:09

World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency business cofounded by the Trump family, is creating a way for investors to speculate on the price of its self-branded coin, WLFI, through the US stock market. A cohort of investors led by World Liberty Financial is set to purchase 200 million shares in ALT5 Sigma Corporation, a Nasdaq-listed company. The proceeds will be used to build a $1.5 billion WLFI treasury, equating to roughly 7.5 percent of the coin’s total supply. Eric Trump will join the AL

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Match to pay $14M to the FTC due to false advertising and other deceptive practices

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-26 23:56:28

Back in 2019, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued the dating app giant Match Group, accusing it of deceiving Match.com users into purchasing subscriptions through misleading means. Now, after six years, the company— which operates popular dating apps Match, Tinder, OkCupid, Hinge, and Plenty of Fish—has agreed to a $14 million settlement, as announced by the FTC on Tuesday. The FTC stated that the $14 million will be used to provide “redress to injured consumers.” According to the la

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Not everyone is happy about new CarPlay in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-27 04:08:27

We’ve covered the new CarPlay experience in iOS 26 a lot over the summer. There’s a lot of excitement for a lot of the changes, but it turns out not everyone loves the complete experience. On 512 Pixels, Stephen Hackett details four issues he has with the new Messages experience in CarPlay with iOS 26. One of his complaints is about name truncation. That’s something I find deeply relatable as I basically have an allergy to unnecessary truncation. The Settings app on my Mac will often truncate “

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Microsoft August 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes one zero-day, 107 flaws

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-27 04:43:50

Today is Microsoft's August 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 107 flaws, including one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Windows Kerberos. This Patch Tuesday also fixes thirteen "Critical" vulnerabilities, nine of which are remote code execution vulnerabilities, three are information disclosure, and one is elevation of privileges. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: 44 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 35 Remote Code Execut

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I tested this new AI podcast tool to see if it can beat NotebookLM - here's how it did

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-27 04:00:17

Speechify The Speechify text-to-speech app enables its over 50 million users worldwide to convert any text, including documents, articles, PDFs, and images into audio, with over 200 voices to choose from. Now, the company is delving into a new type of audio: AI-generated podcasts. Also: I finally gave NotebookLM my full attention - and it really is a total game changer Starting today, Speechify users will be able to turn any content into a "lecture-style" podcast. They'll also get access to a

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Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 06:48:24

Once the basics were done, the real game of Tetris began: First up, just like the conferencing capabilities, we segmented the work modes into 4 distinct groups. It was clear that the space was simply not large enough to support dedicated areas, so we took the equipment and requirements list, and started playing with shelf numbers and their height and made sure that each item is in its best possible ergonomic position. The by far largest amount of devices by volume and space were the musical in

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Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 03:59:58

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Today, Anthropic is releasing a version of Claude Sonnet 4 that has a 1-million token context window. That’s approximately the entire extant set of Harry Potter books in each prompt. We got early access last week, so you know we had to put it to the test. We did three main tests on Claude Sonnet 4: Long context text analysis: We hid two movie scenes in 1 million tokens of context, and asked Claude to find those scenes and

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A Viral Cybertruck Hoax Got So Big, Tesla Had to Break Its Silence

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-27 04:05:32

Elon Musk has always wanted the Cybertruck to be the vehicle everyone talks about. After a bizarre video went viral over the weekend, he got his wish, just not in the way he intended. The rumor grew so outlandish and spread so far that Tesla, a company that famously doesn’t have a public relations department, was forced to do something it rarely does: publicly deny it. The incident highlights the Cybertruck’s strange and precarious position. It’s a vehicle so polarizing and so relentlessly hype

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

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-27 04:14:08

In a moonshot move, AI search engine Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer, Reuters reported and Perplexity has confirmed to TechCrunch. Perplexity tells TC the terms of the offer include a commitment to keep Chrome’s underlying engine, Chromium, open source and continue to invest in it. Perplexity’s offer includes a promise to invest $3 billion into the open source project. Perplexity is also promising not to change the user defaults o

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Hackers breach and expose a major North Korean spying operation

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-27 04:34:34

Hackers claim to have compromised the computer of a North Korean government hacker and leaked its contents online, offering a rare window into a hacking operation by the notoriously secretive nation. The two hackers, who go by Saber and cyb0rg, published a report about the breach in the latest issue of Phrack magazine, a legendary cybersecurity e-zine that was first published in 1985. The latest issue was distributed at the Def Con hackers conference in Las Vegas last week. In the article, the

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Perplexity offers to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-27 09:24:02

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 several investors have agreed to back the deal. In July, Perplexity was valued at $18 billion as part of an extension that valued the company at $14 billion months earlier. Google did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment. The Wall Street Journal was first t

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Android's pKVM hypervisor earns SESIP Level 5 security certification

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-27 09:00:00

Google announced that its protected Kernel-based Virtual Machine (pKVM) for Android has achieved SESIP Level 5 certification, the highest security assurance level for IoT and mobile platforms. The pKVM is the hypervisor underpinning the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF), providing an isolated, high-assurance environment for executing critical workloads. These include Google's AI models like Gemini Nano for local personal data processing, biometric authentication (face, fingerprint), DRM co

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US govt seizes $1 million in crypto from BlackSuit ransomware gang

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-27 09:18:34

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) seized cryptocurrency and digital assets worth $1,091,453 at the time of confiscation, on January 9, 2024, from the BlackSuit ransomware gang. The authorities tracked the crypto as the cybercriminals moved it repeatedly across virtual currency exchange accounts, depositing and withdrawing it to obfuscate the trace. Eventually, the amount was frozen when it reached a cooperating exchange. The action was made possible thanks to evidence collected by the U.S.

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The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-12-23 17:36:24

The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes Eye makers for millennia have been trying to re-create the expressionist power of the human body’s most complex and emotionally meaningful visible organ. By: Dan Roche A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Four thousand years ago, a woman had a very fancy artiﬁcial eye she probably wore while she was alive. It was possibly made of natural tar and animal fat or m

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Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 09:12:02

Last week, OpenAI announced and released GPT-5, and the common consensus both inside the AI community and outside is that the new LLM did not live up to the hype. Bluesky — whose community is skeptical at-best of generative AI in all its forms — began putting the model through its paces: Michael Paulauski asked GPT-5 through the ChatGPT app interface “how many b’s are there in blueberry?”. A simple question that a human child could answer correctly, but ChatGPT states that there are three b’s in

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Perplexity Wants to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 Billion: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-27 09:20:02

AI company Perplexity has offered to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The offer is being characterized as a “longshot,” especially since Perplexity itself is only valued at about $18 billion, according to the newspaper, but the idea is rooted in a very real problem for Google: A judge is currently considering whether Google’s parent company Alphabet should be forced to sell Chrome over antitrust concerns. Perplexity told the

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Best Home Security Cameras With Floodlights in 2025: Illuminate Your Yard

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 09:00:00

Does the camera have night vision? Does it have extra features like color night vision? Does the floodlight camera have adjustable motion detection? Does it have motion zones or sensitivity options? Does it include objection recognition for people? Are there extra costs for these features? Do you prefer a wired or wireless camera? Do you have a junction box where you want to install a wired camera or are you willing to have one installed? Can you control the brightness of the camera's floodli

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Blackwater’s founder would like to sell you a privacy phone made in the USA

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-12-27 09:00:00

Unplugged, a company cofounded and backed by Erik Prince, who is also the founder of infamous private military contractor Blackwater, has just released a new version of its “privacy-first” UP Phone that will be made in the US — at some point. The original UP Phone was described by the company as “the ultimate privacy-focused smartphone” and by privacy platform GrapheneOS as “a clear cut scam.” (It was first announced in June 2022, though it didn’t reach customers until 2024; Unplugged wouldn’t

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Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-27 09:50:26

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The startup also offered to buy TikTok earlier this year. Google hasn’t indicated that it would sell Chrome at any price, and so far, the court hasn’t ordered a sale. Perplexity spokesperson Jesse Dwyer confirmed to The Verge that the WSJ’s reporting is accurat

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In a world of vibe coding startups, Uno Platform is targeting enterprise developers

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-27 09:00:00

Amid the rise of new AI-powered low code developer tools aimed at hobbyists and non-technical folks, Uno Platform is doubling down on enterprise developers instead. Montreal-based Uno Platform offers a suite of enterprise-grade tools for developers to build cross-platform .NET applications that can be supported on Android, Apple, Linux, and Windows systems. Users code an application once and Uno Platform makes it easy to ship other types of applications from the existing codebase. “If you’re c

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Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-27 09:44:07

Just two years since its launch as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Meta’s Threads has topped 400 million monthly active users (MAUs), Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday. “As of a few weeks ago we there are more than 400 million people active on Threads every month,” Mosseri wrote in a Threads post. “It’s been quite the ride over the last two years. This started as a zany idea to compete with Twitter, and has evolved into a meaningful platform that fosters the open exchange of per

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A Unified Approach to Branch Security and SD-WAN: Streamlining Operations

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-27 11:00:51

The way we work has fundamentally shifted, with hybrid and remote models becoming a widespread reality. This evolution brings tremendous benefits but also presents significant challenges for IT and security teams tasked with ensuring seamless access to applications and protecting sensitive data outside the traditional corporate perimeter. Traditionally, network deployments often routed all internet traffic back to a central site through a perimeter firewall. While this provided security, backha

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Beneath the AI Bubble, the Economy Looks Bleak

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-27 12:56:56

The US economy seems to be doing gangbusters lately, largely thanks to incredible booms in the tech sector. The stock market is booming — the S&P 500 hit 15 record closing highs so far this year, while the Nasdaq Composite boasts 17. The country's GDP is growing better than expected. Microsoft just became the second $4 trillion company in history, just weeks after Nvidia became the first. But those headline numbers don't seem to be trickling down to normal, working people. In fact, something i

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Want more Android Authority? How to set us as your preferred source in Google Search

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 14:00:44

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Since 2007, Android Authority has strived to bring all of our readers the very best coverage of Android and the mobile tech world. And even after 18+ years as a proudly independent media outlet, we’re as driven as we’ve ever been to bring you all the latest exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, hands-on reviews, experience-based features, lab testing, and other expert analysis. Of course, how we’ve been able to get that coverage to you has changed in countl

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One of Google’s YouTube channels looks like it was hacked to promote crypto

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 14:34:10

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR An official Google YouTube account was taken offline today. Evidence suggests that Google India’s primary YouTube channel was hijacked by hackers. Screenshots show the account promoting crypto trading prior to going offline. Security is hard. Even with all the fantastic tools we have access to, designed to help keep our accounts and information private, actually maintaining good security requires ongoing effort, making sure we’re taking full advantage of

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Study finds your smartwatch might be way off on one key health stat

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 14:59:20

Kris Carlon / Android Authority TL;DR Study finds smartwatch stress scores often don’t match how you actually feel. Researchers tracked 800 Garmin users for three months and saw “basically zero” correlation for stress. Sleep tracking was more accurate, but better at logging hours slept than rest quality. They’re meant to be your health sidekick, you might suspect that there’s only so much that a wearable can tell you about your mental state from taking a pulse reading. If this wasn’t already

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This new Arch Linux tool takes the hassle out of keeping packages up to date - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-27 14:45:07

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways New Arch tool alerts maintainers when packages are outdated. Bumpbuddy automates GitLab issue creation for updates. Web dashboard and API planned for future Bumpbuddy versions. Bumpbuddy is a new Arch Linux tool that aims to improve how maintainers are informed about packages within the primary repositories. This new app uses a background service (daemon) to monitor package versions and even automatically opens issues on GitLab if it detect

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