Seemingly out of nowhere, Perplexity AI posted a $34.5 billion bid to buy out Google’s Chrome browser. Additionally, the offer was made fully in cash, with no equity to be exchanged.

The offer comes as a surprise because as far as most anyone knew, Google wasn’t offering Chrome for sale to begin with and $34.5 billion is more than Perplexity

An eager beaver on Amazon’s web team flipped the switch on a retail listing for the upcoming ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handheld weeks before it is scheduled to release. We know it went live weeks early because in the short time that the listing was up, the planned release date was visible for all to see. Assuming the premature listing’s information