OpenAI to launch AI-powered web browser
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OpenAI set to launch AI browser in coming weeks and anticipates to directly compete with Google by taking advantage of ChatGPT active users.
According to researchers at Koi Security, the malicious extensions were part of a coordinated operation involving at least 18 known add-ons listed on the Chrome and
If OpenAI does start offering users access to its own browser, it would be following Perplexity, which released a browser with agentic AI functions on Wednesday. That browser, Comet, is currently only available to those with a $200 per month Perplexity Max subscription. Opera also released a "fully agentic" browser back in May.
A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.
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A new tool turns otherwise legitimate extensions for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox into bots that make your browser someone else's tool, and gets them paid in the process.