In a moonshot move, AI search engine Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer, Reuters reported, and Perplexity has confirmed to TechCrunch.

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

Global cloud platform company Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth, undeclared crawlers” to intentionally ignore websites’ no-crawl directives. In other words, Perplexity is getting ...

A laptop keyboard and Perplexity logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 6, 2025. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) ...

Perplexity is launching a program to allow traditional media firms to collect a share of the revenue their articles generate for the AI platform – a move that looks like an attempt to fend off legal ...

Perplexity is stepping directly into the AI commerce race, introducing a shopping assistant built on its search-centric model rather than a traditional chatbot. Instead of treating product discovery ...

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