Perplexity offers $34.5bn to buy Chrome
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AI upstart reckons it can do Google’s job better

Perplexity has lobbed a $34.5 billion offer to buy the Chrome browser, even though the AI firm is only worth about half that much.

Why Huang giving Trump a kick back was Nvidia's only move
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It is unclear if it is actually legal

Nvidia's CEO's Jensen Huang half-trillion-dollar "carrot" to Donald Trump appeared to get the president to turn a blind eye to his exporting chips to China, proving where diplomacy fails a good kick-back will always succeed.

OpenAI hypes up GPT-5
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Altman reckons it's a "major upgrade" 

OpenAI has finally coughed up GPT-5, a supposedly smarter version of its ChatGPT chatbot, which chief Sam Altman insists is a “major upgrade” in the quest to build something resembling artificial general intelligence.

OpenAI wants you to wear a screenless AI gadget
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Ive’s shuffle-inspired wearable could hit production in 2027

ChatGPT peddler OpenAI is cooking up a screenless AI gizmo with the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s former design wizard Sir Jony Ive, and apparently it’s going to look a lot like an old iPod shuffle.

Microsoft raids Deepmind for AI talent
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Claims Vole is more of a start up than Google

Mustafa Suleyman [pictured] is luring top engineers from Google’s DeepMind into Microsoft’s AI division by claiming that Vole has much more of a start-up mentality these days.