💰️Perplexity’s $34B Offer for Chrome

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News of the Day

Meta

Perplexity AI has made a bold $34.5 billion all-cash offer to buy Google’s Chrome browser, aiming to capture its billions of users and strengthen its position in the AI search race, despite the fact that Chrome isn’t officially for sale.

• Offer far exceeds Perplexity’s own $14B valuation, with funding promises from unnamed investment funds.

• Google faces antitrust pressure in the U.S., but is expected to fight any forced sale in court.

• If successful, Perplexity would gain access to over 3 billion Chrome users, supercharging its AI browser ambitions.

This move highlights how web browsers have become key battlegrounds in the AI era. Controlling Chrome could give Perplexity massive influence over global search traffic and user data, but Google is unlikely to give up one of its most valuable assets without a long and fierce legal fight.
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Social Media

2nd News of the Day

GPT-4o Is Back for Paid Users

OpenAI has brought back its popular GPT-4o model for all paid ChatGPT users after receiving widespread user feedback.

CEO Sam Altman called it a tactical step back following the controversial launch of GPT-5, assuring users that any future removals will be announced well in advance.

• Paid ChatGPT users (Plus, Pro, Team, Enterprise) can now use GPT-4o again, along with models like GPT-4.1, o3, and o4-mini via the new "Show more models" option.

• The change comes after technical issues and user dissatisfaction over GPT-5’s initial rollout, including faulty automatic model switching.

• GPT-5 now has three modes, Auto, Fast, and Thinking, with a powerful 196k-token context limit in the Thinking mode (3,000 weekly messages for subscribers).

This move shows OpenAI is listening to user concerns and willing to reverse major changes when feedback is strong. It also highlights the growing demand for choice and customization in AI tools, especially as users form preferences, and even emotional connections, to specific models.
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Trending Tools of Day

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Everything else

🥊 Shots Fired: Sam Altman suggested Elon Musk may be manipulating the X algorithm to benefit his companies and harm his competitors. Musk did not hold back, and harsh words were exchanged on both sides.

🤖 Battle of the Bots: Adding more fuel to the fire, the Grok reply bot on X chipped in and implied that Musk was a hypocrite. The ChatGPT social account decided to take things up a notch.

🍭 Fresh Features: Stepping away from the controversy, Sal Altman shared major updates to ChatGPT, including new “Auto”, “Fast”, and “Thinking” modes for GPT-5. Rate limits are also up, and GPT-4o makes a return for paid users.

🌐 World Within a World: DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shared details on an experiment where one AI plays a game inside the mind of another AI. The results could be useful for applications like robotics and generating synthetic data.

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