Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome

25 jaredwiener 4 8/12/2025, 3:54:08 PM wsj.com ↗

Comments (4)

quesera · 2h ago
masfuerte · 2h ago
Presumably they'll integrate Chrome into their web-scraping botnet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636

netsharc · 2h ago
Somehow the idea of agents reporting to the Borg-collective about the contents of web pages they've seen fascinates me, it's like the librarians of the Library of Babel (1), but... AI.

Disclaimer: it's a fascinating idea, but of course a bad idea ripe for abuse in our dystopia.

1) https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content...

NoMoreNicksLeft · 1h ago
If the Chrome browser could be a business by itself worth $34billion, shouldn't we all be quaking in terror at the thought of how they'd monetize it?