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Tech Matters: Why the Perplexity bid for Google Chrome matters

Perplexity, a ChatGPT rival, may finally have gotten the attention it craved when it filed a $34.5 billion bid to buy Google Chrome. Every major tech outlet and many global news sites, from Bloomberg to Al Jazeera, covered the story with a variety of slants. Some, like Bloomberg, dismissed the ...

Around Utah: Buckley Draw Fire blazes on mountainside over Provo

A wildfire broke out on the mountainside above south Provo around 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon and continued to burn Sunday night. The fire was initially ignited in Buckley Draw Canyon south of Slate Canyon around 5 p.m. By 9 p.m., it had burned 400 acres and was 0% contained, according to a U.S. ...

Around Utah: Utah job report shows employment increase in last year

Utah’s nonfarm payroll employment for July 2025 increased an estimated 2.3% across the past 12 months, with the state’s economy adding a cumulative 40,300 jobs since July 2024. Utah’s current job count stands at 1,763,600. July’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is estimated at ...