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 ...

OpenAI and Perplexity are offering Google buckets of money for its Chrome web browser. Credit: Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Images AI companies are throwing multi-billion dollar offers at ...

Chrome has a built-in Task Manager that shows tabs, extensions, and memory use, and you can use it to speed up your browser.

Google is trying out a major tweak to how AI works inside Chrome, specifically by mashing up Google Lens with the browser’s native AI side panel. Right now, this is popping up in Chrome Canary – the ...