OpenAI To Release AI Web Browser in Challenge To Chrome (reuters.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/09/1818249/openai-to-release-ai-web-browser-in-challenge-to-chrome
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-release-web-browser-challenge-google-chrome-2025-07-09/
> The browser is [1]slated to launch in the coming weeks , three of the people said, and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web. It will give OpenAI more direct access to a cornerstone of Google's success: user data.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-release-web-browser-challenge-google-chrome-2025-07-09/
Another? (Score:3)
Sounds like doubling up on tracking to me, just hype fuelled. Unless the "AI" can do the valid coupon hunting for me, it doesn't sound much better
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If you ask it nicely, it will always find coupons for you. Even "hallucinated" ones!
My first login in years, just to express... (Score:5, Funny)
[puke emoji]
Why worry about new ideas (Score:3)
It's so funny to see the supposedly next generation of technology companies falling into the same old patterns. The greatest myth ever told was that innovation happens in Silicon Valley. In reality, it's just capitalism run amok, with all the companies lying, stealing, and eating themselves in an effort to be the biggest fish in the sea.
Why does OpenAI need a web browser? Because all these people know how to do is eat market share. ChatGPT stopped growing exponentially, so they have to cannibalism users some other way.
"Well gowrsh, everyone still uses a web browser!"
No new ideas, no real innovation. Just ouroboros-brand capitalism.
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That type of capitalism ends one of two ways. Massive systemic collapse, or oligarchy. Once they own everything, they won't need a viable consumer base to sell to, because they'll own everything.
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Tank Girl - The company water & power. They have all the water, and all the power.
Re: Why worry about new ideas (Score:2)
Well said.
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I don't think it's that they exhausted market share, but that they've exhausted the amount of training data they have.
Imagine how much more data on user behavior and website interpretation they can collect from a browser.
Will it have its own engine? (Score:4, Interesting)
Or is yet another Chromium wrapper? Is making a custom engine a use case for vibe coding?
Probably just has the address bar go to ChatGPT (Score:4, Interesting)
> Or is yet another Chromium wrapper? Is making a custom engine a use case for vibe coding?
I will wager it's just a lame Chromium wrapper that directs traffic to OpenAI instead of Google when you type something into the address bar...basically Brave, but shittier? We all know they can't come up with a superior browser engine using ChatGPT to code it...and even if they had a reasonable chance of doing so, it would be a massive headache for them to deal with all the security issues that would arise even from an extremely well made new browser....let alone the garbage ChatGPT pukes out.
What does that even mean? (Score:2, Insightful)
"an AI-powered web browser"
Seriously, what does that even mean?
They must mean "AI enhanced", aka "AI enshittified".
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> "an AI-powered web browser"
> Seriously, what does that even mean?
> They must mean "AI enhanced", aka "AI enshittified".
It means, "We've wrapped all the data gathering in a wrapper called 'AI' to make it sound more palatable to the data cattle, er, uh, we mean users, yeah, that's it. Users." I expect the AI is literally just hooks to guarantee all data about browsing habits, along with anything you'd type into a text box or maybe even a login window, will be directly collected into their servers for training data. It's not going to do anything for the end-user other than annoy and pester. That seems to be the main mode of AI
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Well, if you're correct, then it will be a total failure. And you *could* be correct, as that would be the easiest way to their stated result.
This is how AI takes over (Score:2)
Not by killing all humans directly, but by sticking its s**t in everything until we all kill ourselves.
Altman (Score:2)
Altman seems about a Skeevy as the come. I honestly would run a browser from Zuck/Meta before I would OpenAI.
At least browser based on the open source Chromium code base can be 'un-googled' and have a fair number of eyes looking to make sure Google has filled it with even more spyware we don't know about. Mind you that is only if you eschew the closed widevine stuff.
We need browser that isn't the product of an organization that isnt primarily the surveillance business. OpenAI is the wrong answer here. Mo
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There is no act to get together for Mozilla. If Mozilla had a non self enriching leadership 10 years ago it could have put almost all the Google money in a trust fund and fund Firefox development indefinitely, but now it's too late.
Yet another Chromium browser (Score:2)
Yawn. We need browser diversity.
History rhymes (Score:2)
Just as the dawn of Google Chrome ushered in the decay of the internet to the degenerative state it now sits in, OpenAI's browser will turn it into a straight up X-Files nightmare. Just a prediction of my own.
Sorry, you gotta justify that statement re chrome (Score:3)
> Just as the dawn of Google Chrome ushered in the decay of the internet to the degenerative state it now sits in
Please explain how this is Chrome's fault and why things were better when it was Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox? Whatever you're thinking, it's not common knowledge.
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Where have you been for the past 17 years?
Lamest teen response in history (Score:2)
> Where have you been for the past 17 years?
No, I sincerely don't know what Chrome specifically did to ruin the web. Maybe there is something I don't know...but when someone asks you a technical question and you answer with something as low-effort as "where have you been for the last 17 years?" it makes me think you don't have a clue either. I know, I know Google sucks and all...but I honestly don't know what Chrome did...the few guesses I have LONG predate them and would have happened regardless.
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The internet was destroyed when client-side scripting was introduced, and I am not even trolling.
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Got something against font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", cursive; ?
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> Got something against font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", cursive; ?
Your comment triggered my PTSD
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> The internet was destroyed when client-side scripting was introduced, and I am not even trolling.
Client-side scripting makes a lot of things possible, including surveillance. But downloadable apps are worse. At least the browser can be a gatekeeper for client-side scripting. A good browser for the user would be one that gives us control on what things the scripting is allowed to do. For example, I would like to allow only specific sites to save persistent cookies and site data locally (my data). I can do this with Firefox for the desktop, but not with Firefox or Fennec for Android. It is as if Bi
This is Google's fault? (Score:2)
> The internet was destroyed when client-side scripting was introduced, and I am not even trolling.
Every web developer I've ever met has had no trouble enshittifying their page without the help of Google or Chrome. I think client-side scripting is heavily abused and typically not necessary in the ways most use it...but again, JavaScript was created by Netscape and predates Chrome. How did Chrome make this any worse? Why would it be any different if they never released a browser? Why is firefox any better regarding client side scripting? Safari? IE/Edge?
It sounds like you're making a legit compla