Perplexity Jumps the Shark, Makes Clownish $34.5 Billion Stunt Offer to Buy Chrome From Google

Katherine Blunt, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a paywall-puncturing gift link; also on News+):

Artificial-intelligence startup Perplexity on Tuesday offered to

purchase Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion as it works to

challenge the tech giant’s web-search dominance.