An AI startup made a perplexing bid to buy Google's Chrome browser.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

Perplexity AI has offered $34.5 billion to buy Alphabet's Chrome browser, despite the fact

the tech giant hasn't said it's for sale. We'll get into that on today's Marketplace TechBites

Week in review. Plus, the reviews are in for OpenAI's highly anticipated GPT5 model,

and they're kind of...

But first, President Trump gave chipmakers Nvidia an AMD the green light to sell their

less powerful semiconductors in China in exchange for a 15% cut of sales revenue. The deal is already raising

eyebrows and legal questions. We spoke with Anita Ramoswamy, columnist at the information to learn

more. It is very much this sort of quid pro quo tip-for-tat policymaking. There are several experts who believe that it might be

unconstitutional for President Trump to have sort of compelled these companies to pay a share of their

revenue, especially when it is in the specific setting of export and export controls. And I do think

the other aspect of this is kind of interesting is that China's retaliating, too.

I mean, the information reported earlier this week that the Chinese regulators are sort of ordering the local tech companies to stop buying Nvidia chips because they're worried about privacy concerns.

So it's not just going in one direction. This is just an escalation of this bigger conflict

that's been going on between the U.S. and China over chips.

Right. The situation with kind of the trade war and using chips as a bargaining chip has been very dynamic.

There's been a lot of back and forth, a lot of kind of bargaining over these chips.

Obviously, there have been a lot of experts weighing in on whether or not this constitutes

export tax, which, as you noted, you know, could be unconstitutional. I mean, how likely does it

seem like a challenge to this would actually materialize from these companies?

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