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. Perplexity tells TC the terms of the offer include a commitment to keep Chrome’s underlying engine, Chromium, open source and continue to invest in it. Perplexity’s offer includes a promise to invest $3 billion into the open source project. Perplexity is also promising not to change the user defaults of Chrome users, including the default search engine. That is, Perplexity is promising to leave Google as the search engine…
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Strategy, a publicly traded American company co-founded by Michael Saylor, is making headlines as rumors swirl about its massive $46 billion BTC stash being used as a potential backdoor for a US strategic Bitcoin reserve. The speculation arose after a crypto analyst claimed that Tom Lee, a well-known financial analyst and Wall Street strategist, suggested that Saylor might be buying BTC on behalf of the US government. Strategy’s BTC Stash Linked To US Bitcoin Reserve A new development in the Bitcoin accumulation race has erupted after crypto analyst Lupin claimed in an August 10 post on X social media that…
In early 2023, David Petrou, a distinguished engineer and founding member of both Google Goggles and Google Glass, made a surprising move. After more than 17 years at the company, he departed to launch his own startup. “I was seeing how fast technology was changing, and I felt there are certain ideas that are best explored in the context of a startup,” Petrou told TechCrunch. His ultimate idea was to build Continua, a consumer-facing company that uses AI agents to enhance collaboration and interaction in group chats on SMS, iMessage, and Discord. “The simple way to think about it is…
This current bull market cycle has seen a remarkable adoption from Bitcoin investors, especially at the institutional level, which has significantly contributed to its sharp rally towards a new all-time high. Despite trending near its new all-time high, big institutions do not seem to be slowing down in their purchase of the crypto king. One of the latest buys comes from the leading firm, Sequans. Another Bitcoin Buy Signals Sequans’ Long-Term Confidence Bullish sentiment is returning to Bitcoin once again, as evidenced by a continued acquisition from large corporations like Sequans. The leading semiconductor solutions firm is showing no signs…
Demand for AI “companion” applications outside of bigger names, like ChatGPT and Grok, is growing. Of the 337 active and revenue-generating AI companion apps available worldwide, 128 were released in 2025 so far, according to new data provided to TechCrunch by app intelligence firm Appfigures. This subsection of the AI market on mobile has now generated $82 million during the first half of the year and is on track to pull in over $120 million by year-end, the firm’s analysis indicates. Unlike general-purpose chatbots, AI companion apps anthropomorphize AI interactions by allowing users to converse with custom characters, including friends,…
Key Takeaways AI startup Perplexity has made a $34.5 billion offer to acquire Google’s Chrome browser amid antitrust pressures. Perplexity plans to invest $3 billion into Chrome and Chromium over two years and extend offers to Chrome talent if the deal goes through. Share this article Perplexity, which focuses on developing advanced AI-powered search technology, has made a $34.5 billion proposal to acquire Google’s Chrome browser, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing a Perplexity spokesperson. The AI startup sent the bid to Alphabet’s Google this morning.The offer comes amid ongoing antitrust legal proceedings against Google. A federal judge ruled last year that…
Anthropic is increasing the amount of information that enterprise customers can send to Claude in a single prompt, part of an effort to attract more developers to the company’s popular AI coding models. For Anthropic’s API customers, the company’s Claude Sonnet 4 AI model now has a one million token context window — meaning the AI can handle requests as long as 750,000 words, more than the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, or 75,000 lines of code. That’s roughly five times Claude’s previous limit (200,000 tokens), and more than double the 400,000 token context window offered by OpenAI’s GPT-5.…
In the past few weeks, Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency asset, has been on an upward trend, with an over 44% monthly increase, outperforming several major digital assets, including Bitcoin. ETH’s ongoing upside performance is not only observed in its price, but also in multiple crucial on-chain metrics such as the Options Open Interest. A Record-Breaking Ethereum Options Interest Ethereum continues to hold strong above the key $4,000 price mark following a notable upward trend. Meanwhile, its derivatives market is also heating up as ETH’s Options Open Interest (OI) witnesses a sharp growth. Glassnode, a leading financial and on-chain data analytics…
Just a week after OpenAI announced it would offer ChatGPT Enterprise to the entire federal executive branch workforce at $1 per year per agency, Anthropic has raised the stakes. The AI giant said Tuesday it would also offer its Claude models to government agencies for just $1 – but not only to the executive branch. Anthropic is targeting “all three branches” of the U.S. government, including the legislative and judiciary branches. The move comes after OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind were added to the General Services Administration’s list of approved AI vendors that can sell their services to civilian federal…
Ethereum ha superato da poche ore la soglia dei 4.300 dollari, confermando il suo trend rialzista e avvicinandosi rapidamente al suo massimo storico. Questo rialzo arriva in un momento di solidi fondamentali, tra cui un aumento dell’attività sulla rete, una crescente adozione da parte degli investitori istituzionali e riserve sui mercati di scambio ai minimi storici, segnale di un’offerta sempre più limitata che potrebbe spingere il prezzo ancora più in alto. I dati on-chain continuano a mostrare segnali positivi: le riserve di ETH sugli exchange sono scese a livelli mai visti prima, indicando che molte monete vengono spostate verso depositi…