Perplexity’s unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and strategic signaling amid Google’s antitrust uncertainty (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Perplexity’s unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and strategic signaling amid Google’s antitrust uncertainty  —  Why not offer a quadrillion dollars? … I’ll give Perplexity one thing: making the offer thirty-four-POINT-five billion dollars is a nice touch.

Hubble estimates the size of a comet from deep space

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has imaged an interstellar comet. This icy body was discovered by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on July 1, 2025, when it was 420 million miles (676 million kilometers) from the Sun. ATLAS is an asteroid impact early warning system developed […]