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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 ...

Tech Matters: How to outsmart dynamic pricing

When Delta announced plans to use artificial intelligence to set ticket prices, the backlash was immediate, with consumers raising questions about privacy. The airline said it would not use passengers’ personal data in the process. But pricing already feels arbitrary, and adding AI into the ...