A team of researchers used AI tools including Gemini, Claude, and Codex to discover and exploit a 5-vulnerability chain in Google Chrome, earning US$117,000 in bug bounties. The chain, which took 3 mo…
A developer built CaravanAI, a voice-based travel planning web app that uses conversational etiquette to create passion-driven itineraries. The app integrates Google Gemini API for itinerary generatio…
OpenAI is shutting down its AI browser Atlas, launched in October 2025, after nine months due to cybersecurity vulnerabilities, slow performance, and legal issues. The browser's agent mode failed to d…
OpenAI will shut down its ChatGPT Atlas browser on August 9, 2026, integrating its technology into a desktop superapp. The company is refocusing on core AI development rather than browser competition.…
A blog owner is blocking old browser versions to combat high-volume crawlers suspected of gathering data for LLM training, causing feed readers like Inoreader and Feedly to display error pages instead…
OpenAI has shut down Atlas, its AI-powered browser launched in October, and is moving its agent-based browsing features to the ChatGPT desktop app and a Google Chrome extension. The decision follows C…
OpenAI is shutting down its Atlas browser, launched in October 2025, after less than eight months, folding its features into an updated Chrome extension that integrates ChatGPT into the browser's side…
OpenAI is shutting down its AI-powered browser Atlas, launched in October, and redistributing its agentic browsing features across ChatGPT's desktop app and a new Google Chrome extension. The move fol…
A web server operator is blocking old browser versions, especially Chrome, to mitigate high-volume crawlers suspected of gathering data for LLM training, causing access issues for legitimate users. Th…
Nocta released activity-frames, an open-source tool that records a user's screen locally and compiles it into structured activity frames for AI agents, enabling episodic memory without cloud processin…
The browser wars have shifted from search to AI, with new entrants like Perplexity's Comet, The Browser Company's Dia, Opera's Neon, OpenAI's Atlas, and Y Combinator-backed Aside challenging Chrome an…
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…
Arvind Jain, a former Google engineer who co-founded Rubrik and Glean, says he learned from Sundar Pichai, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin that thinking big and disregarding normal constraints is as impor…
A blog administrator reports that high-volume crawlers, including those from Inoreader, Feedly, and archive.* services, are using old browser user agents to scrape content, likely for LLM training, ca…
A developer used OpenAI's Codex AI assistant to port the williamcotton.com website from a custom language called Web Pipe to Rust, with the AI successfully recreating the site and integrating Contentf…
Amazon is suing Perplexity AI over its Comet AI-powered browser, alleging that the agentic browsing tool covertly accesses Amazon's servers by masking itself as a Google Chrome user, posing security r…
A developer created a repository that enables Cursor to use the Claude Chrome extension to analyze the currently selected browser tab and return the response to Cursor for code editing. The tool uses …
OpenAI released Plant Talk, an open-source project that lets users converse with a houseplant via ChatGPT using a webcam, microphone, and the OpenAI API. The system can optionally integrate Arduino se…
A coalition including Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify has proposed PACT (Private Access Control Tokens) to replace CAPTCHAs and verify human web traffic without tracking users or r…
Cloudflare, major browser vendors including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge, and Shopify are developing the Private Access Control Tokens (PACT) protocol to replace invasive bot det…