Chrome has an estimated three billion users.
                
                    
                
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        Perplexity AI makes surprise bid for Google Chrome
Artificial intelligence start-up Perplexity AI has made a surprise $34.5bn (£25.6bn) takeover bid for the world's most popular web browser, Google Chrome. The three-year-old firm, whose backers include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and chip maker Nvidia, is headed by a former Google and OpenAI employee.

                        Thousands of young people across the UK are joining a mission to understand and help solve the environmental crisis facing their generation.
                    
                
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