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Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it's raised

Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it's raised: Perplexity tells TechCrunch the terms of the offer include a commitment to keep Chrome’s underlying engine, Chromium, open source and to invest $3 billion into it. Read More

Hackers breach and expose a major North Korean spying operation: Two hackers broke into the computer of a North Korean government hacker and leaked its contents, offering a rare glimpse inside the secretive nation's spying operations. Read More

Anthropic's Claude AI model can now handle longer prompts: Anthropic's popular coding model just became a little more enticing for developers with a million-token context window. Read More

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