Wed. 08/13 – Perplexity Wants To Acquire Chrome
Aug 14, 2025•20 min
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Summary
The Tech Brew Ride Home discusses Perplexity's attention-grabbing $34.5 billion offer to acquire Google Chrome, largely seen as a marketing stunt amidst Google's antitrust challenges. The episode also delves into major AI developments, including OpenAI restoring GPT-4o and adding new integrations, alongside Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4's massive context window and its competition in the AI coding platform market. Other topics include the dramatic drop in UK porn site traffic due to new age verification laws, the surprising growth and revenue of AI companion applications, and GM's plans to re-enter the self-driving car business for personal use.Episode description
Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome, but how serious are they? Fine, says OpenAI, have your GPT-4o back. Are AI companions the next breakout AI business beyond coding help? And is GM getting back in the self-driving car business for real this time?
Links:
- Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome (WSJ)
- OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again (VentureBeat)
- OpenAI rolls out Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts integration in ChatGPT (BleepingComputer)
- UK porn site traffic plunges as age verification rules take effect (Financial Times)
- AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025 (TechCrunch)
- GM Plans Renewed Driverless-Car Push After Cruise Debacle (Bloomberg)
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