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- Manlobbi
Personal Finance Topics / Macroeconomic Trends and Risks
No. of Recommendations: 1
The following was crafted by Google's AI and mistakenly refers to the target as Chrome, when, in fact, the browser used by Atlas IS Chrome. It is targeting the Google search engine. It blatantly works by remembering everything you have asked of it (something I suspect all AIs are doing unless you explicitly forbid it - in some cases by using Incognito Mode). This can drive you crazy when it answers a question in the context of a previous unrelated question - as it builds its dossier on you.
Jeff
OpenAI has released its own web browser called ChatGPT Atlas, featuring a deeply integrated AI assistant. The browser, which is built on Chromium, is designed to challenge Google Chrome and other browsers by reimagining the web browsing experience around AI.
Key features of ChatGPT Atlas
Integrated ChatGPT: Instead of a traditional address bar, users interact with the web through a chat interface. A sidebar also allows for quick summaries or analysis of the current webpage.
AI Agent Mode: A more advanced "Agent Mode" can automate complex, multi-step tasks such as booking appointments, comparing products, or ordering groceries. This experimental feature is currently exclusive to paying Plus and Pro subscribers.
Browser Memory: With user permission, Atlas can remember browsing context and past conversations to provide more relevant suggestions. Privacy controls allow users to manage or clear this memory.
Cross-platform expansion: The browser was first released on macOS in October 2025, with plans to release versions for Windows, iOS, and Android soon.
Impact and reception
Competition with Google: The launch pits OpenAI directly against Google's Chrome, the market leader for decades. Google's stock fell 3% following the announcement.
Data and privacy concerns: Because Atlas provides OpenAI with deep insight into user browsing habits, it raises significant privacy questions. OpenAI has implemented controls like "logged-out mode" to give users more control over their data.
A new AI paradigm: Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, framed the launch as an opportunity to rethink the browser for the AI era, shifting internet access toward a chat-centric experience.
Facing market competition: While Atlas is not the first AI-first browser—Perplexity released its Comet browser earlier in 2025—it is the most high-profile entry. Other companies, including Google and Microsoft, are also integrating more AI features into their own browsers.
It's currently available on MacOS with IOS, Windows and others to follow
No. of Recommendations: 3
They are targeting both. The OpenAI's browser is built on Google's open source browser software Chromium, but it isn't Chrome. Chrome has some special features, like sending user data back to Google to help improve search results and ad placement, optimize web page loading, as well as keeping the user in the Google ecosystem. And since most people use Chrome, most sites are optimized to work best with Chrome, and Google can drive web standards. Obviously, Google would prefer for OpenAI not to do an end-around.
Astonishingly, Microsoft Edge is also based on Chromium. I would think that a software company would create their own browser from scratch over using a competitor's product, especially after Google drowned Internet Explorer in the bathtub. It seems a little comeuppance would be in order. But apparently because everyone was optimizing for Chrome, Microsoft decided that if they couldn't beat 'em, join 'em.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Google has already incorporated AI into their regular query answers. A query returns a paragraph or two of AI-type answers followed by the usual links they always had.
For a more in-depth response it's easy to go to Google Gemini.
Wendy
No. of Recommendations: 1
My concerns about all of these "tools" is that you end up divulging an awful lot of information which you would otherwise think is private hidden within the questions you ask. The reason the word tool is in quotes is I have the feeling that we are the tools it is using.
Jeff
No. of Recommendations: 7
My concerns about all of these "tools" is that you end up divulging an awful lot of information which you would otherwise think is private hidden within the questions you ask. The reason the word tool is in quotes is I have the feeling that we are the tools it is using.
Totally agree. Try this: input "what do you know about me?" into all the various AI's you use. Not your name, "me." Gemini and Claude claim to know nothing. But Perplexity knew really a lot. Some of it was stuff it pulled off the Internet, and a lot of it was based on my queries.
No. of Recommendations: 3
<iMy concerns about all of these "tools" is that you end up divulging an awful lot of information which you would otherwise think is private hidden within the questions you ask. The reason the word tool is in quotes is I have the feeling that we are the tools it is using.
Jeff
I have toyed with the idea of having a program that would run continuous random searches. Searches including denied areas, think things that would trigger SS and FBI monitors. Just to jack with the overlords.
Cheers
Qazulight
No. of Recommendations: 0
Qaz,
There are no "laws" about beginning false information for AI to follow. I am trying to use AI.
There are places to plant supporting information that almost no human would bother seeking out. AI goes by citations. They can be created.
