Mastodawn

LCP Aug 12, 2025

Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion

https://lemmy.world/post/34346496

Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion - Lemmy.World

> The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.

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9point6 Aug 12, 2025

Well this is somehow much, much worse than Google

For those who missed it, perplexity is the one happily powering truth social’s AI search with their logo front and centre

Remember your browser choices aren’t that of everyone you know. Many of them will happily continue with Chrome and may end up looking at a profile of yours or something—just not using it is really not gonna cut it

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sykaster

I did some checking around on the web and it seems that the partnership is a standard APU license where Perplexity provides the technical infrastructure and Truth Social makes requests to there. The AI does contradict Trump regularly according to the Washington post: washingtonpost.com/…/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbo…

So I’m not sure if this is massively wrong. Or at least, not as bad as I thought it would be.

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him

An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.

The Washington Post