Perplexity Chrome bid shakes up antitrust endgame
A surprise $34.5B gambit from an AI upstart In a move that few in tech or antitrust circles saw coming, AI search startup Perplexity publicly offered $34.5 billion to buy Google’s Chrome—but only if the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) or courts ultimately require Alphabet to divest the world’s most-used browser as part of ongoing…