Perplexity offers $34.5 billion to buy Chrome - DTNSB 5080
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Reddit announces its will block the Internet Archive to prevent AI scraping of its data, and Samsung's new Micro RGB TV is an affordable $32,000!
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| 0:50.4 | and potentially the very nature of human experience. |
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| 1:19.8 | We tell you what you need to know, follow up the context of those stories, and help each other understand. |
| 1:24.3 | Today, perplexity offered Google $34.5 billion to buy Chrome, and Google |
| 1:29.7 | said we were selling it. Also, Reddit is blocking the internet archive because dot, dot, |
| 1:35.4 | dot, Ii. Okay. Yeah. We got a lot to talk about. I'm Jason L. I'm Tom Merritt. Let's start |
| 1:41.6 | with what you need to know with the big story. |
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