Google Chrome users have been warned just weeks after a ‘high-severity vulnerability’ was detected in the browser. Some 3.5 billion users will be offered an update, which will be rolled out in the coming days and weeks.

Many see Perplexity’s bid to buy Google’s Chrome browser as a strategic statement rather than a likely transaction.

Artificial intelligence search company Perplexity has made an unsolicited, $34.5 billion offer to purchase Google’s Chrome browser, a surprise move by a Google Search challenger that’s looking to upend how people find information online.