Perplexity’s Chrome bid, Apple’s Musk problem, Russia links to court hack, CoreWeave drops. Plus: Fractal Analytics, Google, Singapore's neobanks, Match Group, Merge Labs, Meta Threads, OpenAI, Terraform Labs.

Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer.

This is second big offer the AI startup has made this year to buy a major asset, after a bid for TikTok in January.

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