Perplexity makes $34.5B bid to buy Google's Chrome browser. Deal would give Perplexity a gateway to the AI-driven web. Perplexity's bid could spark a bidding war. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage ...

A key notion of the social web — that user-generated content is free to access, but not necessarily free to take — may be going head-to-head with a mammoth legal test. Earlier this week, Reddit filed ...

Mondo examines the rise and fall of Perplexity, an AI search platform launched in 2022 that aimed to provide citation-backed answers without ads or SEO interference. Initially praised for its clean ...

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How do you know which AI chatbot is the best? Today, we're putting ChatGPT and Perplexity AI head-to-head. Because they're designed for different purposes, it's tough to rate either as unequivocally ...