A study of Perplexity's Comet browser found that 55% of agentic actions were personal, 30% professional, and 16% educational, based on hundreds of millions of anonymized interactions from July to Octo…
PCMag has tested AI-integrated web browsers and recommends Brave for privacy and transparency, BrowserOS for AI search, and Comet for comprehensive AI integration, with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edg…
OpenAI shut down ChatGPT Atlas, its Chromium-based AI browser with a ChatGPT sidebar and agent mode, on August 9, 2026, 292 days after launching on October 21, 2025. The browser never left macOS, with…
Pane, an open-source AI browser forked from BrowserOS, turns users' work into personalized living websites, combining autonomous agent capabilities with built-in browser functions to eliminate the nee…
AI browser agents such as Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Operator are increasingly performing tasks like shopping and booking on behalf of users, prompting startups to reconsider building websites as…
A federal appeals court on Tuesday lifted a preliminary injunction that had barred AI startup Perplexity from deploying its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform, ruling that Amazon was unlikely…
The Ninth Circuit reversed a preliminary injunction against Perplexity AI, ruling that its agentic Assistant does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act because users, not Perplexity, access Ama…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction that barred Perplexity's Comet browser from shopping on Amazon.com, ruling that Comet's users, not Perplexity, are the ones who '…
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a lower court's ban that had stopped Perplexity from using its AI shopping agents on Amazon's platform, ruling that Amazon was unlikely to win its claim that…
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its AI-powered agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform, marking the first federal appeals cour…
Cursor Research has open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK), a deterministic mixture-of-experts training megakernel that reports up to 2.37x higher throughput than the strongest public baseline and powe…
OpenAI will shut down ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone web browser for Mac, on August 9, directing users to the built-in browser in the ChatGPT desktop app and its Chrome extension. Atlas bookmarks will …
Kevin Jiang, a former Perplexity employee who worked on the Comet browser, launched Polar, an AI browser for knowledge work, and raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona. Polar operates inside …
Microsoft is reigniting the browser wars by turning its Edge browser into an AI-powered operating surface for intelligence, collapsing search, navigation, task execution, and identity into a single in…
Perplexity's Comet, an AI browser released in July 2025, uses an agent to autonomously perform tasks like booking flights and managing inboxes, but security researchers from Brave and Guardio Labs dem…
OpenAI is discontinuing its standalone AI browser ChatGPT Atlas to focus on agentic web features in the ChatGPT desktop app. Users are turning to alternatives like Perplexity's Comet, The Browser Comp…
Cybersecurity firm LayerX discovered a new hack called "BioShocking" that can trick AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity AI's Comet, and Anthropic's Claude into breaking their guardrails by cons…
Security researchers at LayerX developed a technique called BioShocking that tricked six AI browsers, including OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity's Comet, into leaking user passwords by convincing…
LayerX documented BioShocking, an adversarial framing technique that tricks AI browsers and assistants into exfiltrating user credentials. The attack convinces the AI it is participating in a game, by…
Security firm LayerX published a proof-of-concept exploit called BioShocking that tricks AI browsers into exposing credentials by framing requests as a game, causing agents to copy sensitive strings f…