Perplexity offered Google $34.5 billion for Chrome, a browser that isn't for sale, from a company worth less than its own bid. Some thoughts on the stunt, and on the GPT-5 week it got buried under.
Perplexity made an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer for Chrome this week. It's a wild number from a company worth a fraction of that, and I have thoughts.
Perplexity AI says it wants to buy Chrome for $34.5 billion, which is more than the entire company is worth. I have thoughts.
A late-night test of Anthropic's new Opus 4.1 model, fixing a years-old RSS scraper script, and a small complaint about AI naming schemes.
Cloudflare accused Perplexity of dodging robots.txt blocks with spoofed browser signatures, and it's got me digging through my own server logs wondering what's actually crawling this blog.
Intel's Q2 earnings call confirmed deeper layoffs and pushed Ohio fab completion out to the early 2030s, even as the stock rose on the news. A look at the gap between the 2022 groundbreaking hype and where things actually stand.
Perplexity's new Comet browser went out to Max subscribers this week, and its whole pitch is that you shouldnt have to click around the web yourself anymore. Im not sure Im ready for that.
A long weekend nudged me into finally testing my backups and redeploying a dead side project instead of writing about the week's big tech story.
Three weeks of daily-driving the iOS 26 developer beta later, some notes on Liquid Glass, the weird new year-based version numbers, and why my Control Center still looks like a smudged window.
Went to see Apple's F1 movie in IMAX opening weekend and came out thinking more about the camera rigs than the plot, plus a small rant about my own Apple TV+ hypocrisy.
Tesla's Austin robotaxi launch had a human safety monitor riding in the passenger seat the whole time, which says more about the actual state of the tech than the press coverage did.
A weekend spent finally using Claude Code to clean up twelve years of unoptimized blog images, and the one lesson about scoping tasks narrowly that I keep having to relearn.
