GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express

“I think this was a growing up moment for OpenAI and the industry.”

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A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Offers to Buy Google’s Chrome Browser for $34.5 Billion

The tiny start-up hopes to take advantage of an upcoming antitrust ruling against the tech giant.

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Is A.I. the Future of Web Browsing?

A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.

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Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta’s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up

Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”

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