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Perplexity offers $34.5B for Chrome (yes, really)

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💸 Perplexity Just Offered $34.5B for Chrome (Because Why Not?)

  • AI search startup Perplexity looked at Google's antitrust troubles and thought: "You know what? We'll take that browser off your hands for a casual $34.5 billion in cash."

  • Why it matters: A startup that makes fancy search is trying to buy the world's most popular browser. It's like your local coffee shop offering to buy Starbucks — except they actually have the money (source)

🧠 Sam Altman Wants to Compete with Elon's Brain Chips

  • OpenAI's Sam Altman is reportedly starting "Merge Labs" — a Neuralink competitor that'll let you literally think your way through ChatGPT prompts.

  • Why it matters: The two guys who argue about AI safety on Twitter are now racing to physically plug computers into human skulls. What could go wrong? (source)

🇨🇳 China to Nvidia: "We're Just Not That Into You"

  • Chinese regulators are interrogating Tencent and ByteDance about buying Nvidia's H20 chips, basically saying "why aren't you buying homegrown silicon?"

  • Why it matters: China's breaking up with Nvidia harder than a college relationship. Jensen's leather jacket sales about to plummet in Beijing. (source)

🤖 OpenAI Admits GPT-5 is Too Complicated, Brings Back the Menu

  • OpenAI tried to make one perfect AI model, failed spectacularly, and now we're back to "Auto," "Fast," and "Thinking" modes like it's 2023 again.

  • Why it matters: Turns out users get emotionally attached to specific AI personalities. Who knew people would have feelings about their chatbots? (source)

📚 Claude Can Now Read the Entire Lord of the Rings (And Remember It)

  • Anthropic cranked Claude's context window to 1 million tokens — that's 750,000 words or roughly three novels worth of memory.

  • Why it matters: Your AI can now hold more information in its head than most college students. Finally, something that can read your entire codebase without forgetting what it was doing. (source)

💰 CoreWeave Makes $1.2B, Still Loses Money (AI Math is Hard)

  • AI cloud provider CoreWeave crushed revenue expectations but their stock tanked because making money is apparently different from earning money.

  • Why it matters: The AI gold rush is real, but so are the bills. Turns out GPUs cost more than the GDP of small countries. (source)

⚡ Israeli Startup Thinks AI Chips Use Too Much Power (They're Right)

  • NeoLogic raised $10M to build CPUs that don't require their own nuclear power plant to run AI workloads.

  • Why it matters: Data centers are about to double their power usage. Someone needs to invent AI that doesn't melt the polar ice caps. (source)

📱 Google's Pixel 10 Gets an AI Camera Coach

  • Google's upcoming Pixel 10 will have an AI that teaches you photography and lets you edit photos by talking to them.

  • Why it matters: Your phone is about to become that friend who's really into photography and won't shut up about aperture settings. (source)

🏥 Indian Hospitals Double Down on AI (The Good Kind)

  • Apollo Hospitals is doubling their AI investment after successfully using it to read X-rays without hallucinating extra bones.

  • Why it matters: Finally, AI that saves lives instead of generating fake celebrity nudes. Progress! (source)

🏭 Companies Use AI to Dodge Tariff Chaos

  • Manufacturers are using AI to predict when trade wars will spike prices, because apparently even supply chains need fortune tellers now.

  • Why it matters: AI is helping businesses navigate geopolitical chaos. It's like having a crystal ball, but with more math. (source)

💬 AI Wants to Join Your Group Chat (Please Don't)

  • Startup Continua raised $8M to put AI agents in your Discord and SMS groups to "help with planning."

  • Why it matters: Your group chat about weekend plans is about to get a new member who never stops suggesting "optimal" restaurant choices. (source)

🧑‍💻 Uno Platform Builds Tools for Actual Developers

  • Uno Platform raised $2.54M to build developer tools for professionals, not just people who think HTML is a programming language.

  • Why it matters: While everyone's building AI for beginners, someone remembered that actual developers still need to ship code that works. (source)

Until tomorrow (if the data centers don't melt),
Team Galaxy.ai

P.S. If Perplexity actually buys Chrome, we're officially living in the weirdest timeline.

P.P.S. Sam Altman wanting to put chips in brains while arguing AI safety is peak 2025 energy.