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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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…
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.…
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…
Key Takeaways Arthur Hayes has joined Upexi as the first member of its Solana-focused advisory committee. Upexi holds 1.9 million SOL tokens and aims to solidify its leadership in Solana treasury management. Share this article BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has joined Solana treasury company Upexi as the first member of its newly established advisory committee, the company announced Tuesday.The committee will help expand Upexi’s footprint in the Solana ecosystem via strategic partnerships and targeted investments, positioning the company as a leading Solana treasury company.“The Advisory Committee will be a catalyst for Upexi’s next stage of growth – driving performance, amplifying…
When Bill Dally joined Nvidia’s research lab in 2009, it employed only about a dozen people and was focused on ray tracing, a rendering technique used in computer graphics. That once-small research lab now employs more than 400 people, who have helped transform Nvidia from a video game GPU startup in the nineties to a $4 trillion-dollar company fueling the artificial intelligence boom.Now, the company’s research lab has its sights set on developing the tech needed to power robotics and AI. And some of that lab work is already showing up in products. The company unveiled Monday a new set…
According to Gert Van Lagen, XRP’s macro structure has finally done one thing that is necessary. Break and hold the base neckline for seven years. “XRP (2W) – Ripple is ready to rip. A 7-year double bottom is broken. His chart is drawn on a logarithmic scale with a two-week candle, framing the movement as a multi-cycle inversion rather than a short-term pop. Can XRP really hit $34? Geometry is clear on the chart. The wide W-shaped base extending from the 2018-2024 Bear Market has been carved with twin rows carved into the $0.20-$0.30 region, returning to the horizontal neckline…
Key Takeaways Peter Thiel has disclosed a 7.5% stake in ETHZilla, which trades under the ticker ATNF. Thiel and his investor group reported beneficial ownership of over 11 million shares of 180 Life Sciences. Share this article Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, is part of an investor group that holds a 7.5% stake in 180 Life Sciences, which is rebranding as ETHZilla, an Ethereum-focused corporate treasury vehicle, according to a new SEC disclosure.Shares of 180 Life Sciences (ATNF) jumped over 11% at Monday’s close and surged roughly 57% in overnight trading, Yahoo Finance…