💰 Perplexity to buy Chrome?

Wednesday’s AI Report

• 1. 💰 Perplexity to buy Chrome?
• 2. ✅ Schedule your AI audit with Upscaile
• 3. 🌍 How this firm used AI to improve cancer treatment by 33%
• 4. 🔏 Protect your online info with Incogni
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🏛️ Anthropic undercuts OpenAI
• 7. 🧠 OpenAI and Altman target Musk rival
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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Perplexity to buy Chrome?

🚨 Our Report

AI-powered search engine start-up, Perplexity, has reportedly offered to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B (which is far more than the company is worth—more on that later) after recently launching Comet, its agentic AI browser

🔓 Key Points

If Google accepts, Perplexity has (apparently) agreed to invest $3B into Chrome and its underlying engine—Chromium—over the next two years, and keep Chromium as an open source project.
It’s also promised not to change Chrome users’ default settings, including their default search engine—meaning Perplexity will not make its own browser, Comet, the default browser if users have selected Chrome.
According to market analysts, Chrome is worth around $50B, so if successful, Perplexity has bagged itself a good deal, especially as its own valuation is estimated to be just $18B after raising $100M last month.

🔐 Relevance

Chrome has around 3.5B users and currently holds 68% of the browser market. This prompted the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to file an antitrust case against Google in March, claiming it had “illegally [monopolized] the search engine and search advertising markets.” Google lost this case, and as a potential remedy, District Judge Amit Mehta suggested that Google could be forced to sell Chrome. Although Google hasn’t agreed to sell Chrome and has vowed to fight against the ruling, the vultures have already started circling—OpenAI has also offered to buy the browser, with experts expecting more offers to follow.

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How this biotech firm used AI to improve cancer treatment control by 33%

Exscientia—which specializes in drug discovery—was relying on a try-it-and-see approach to cancer treatment which was timely and unreliable.
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Googling a name can reveal more than expected

Data brokers sell personal info—often for less than a dollar.

What’s publicly available:

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This information is bundled and sold to anyone willing to pay. Even ChatGPT can return surprising details when asked about someone with an online presence.

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1 in 4 Americans experience identity theft
$1,100 average loss per incident
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One week after OpenAI said it would offer ChatGPT to one branch of the US Government for $1 per agency, Anthropic has announced it will offer Claude to “all three branches” of the Government for $1 per agency.
It will give the agencies within each branch access to both Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government, with the latter (reportedly) able to support high workloads and sensitive unclassified information.
This is undoubtedly a strategic attempt by Anthropic to undercut OpenAI and strengthen its foothold within the Government by integrating its models into more Government-specific projects.

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OpenAI and co-founder, Sam Altman, are in early talks about investing in brain-to-computer tech start-up—Merge Labs—which is a direct rival to Elon Musk’s brain-to-computer tech firm, Neuralink.
Merge Labs, which has a valuation of $850M, is also in talks with Alex Blania, the co-founder of Tools for Humanity, which is his and Altman’s iris-scanning digital ID start-up that “allows anyone to verify their humanness.”
Merge Labs is raising $250M to develop chips that connect computers to human brains, but Neuralink is already reportedly planning to implant 20,000 people with Neuralink chips by 2031, generating over $1B for Musk.

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