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6d ago

Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

www.reuters.com

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Web browser will include chat interface, enable AI agent integrations
Launch intensifies OpenAI's competition with Google in AI race
New product is part of OpenAI's broader strategy to capture data on users' web behavior

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kerntucky @infosec.pub

6d ago

Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

www.reuters.com /business/media-telecom/openai-release-web-browser-challenge-google-chrome-2025-07-09/

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$10 says it's Chromium based
Hahahaha fuck off
Hallucinations built right into it?
- You can download eight other browsers to cross-check each other! It’s the future!
I assume it's been vibe coded, sauce for the goose being good with the gander and all that.
ETA: /s just to be clear.
New product is part of OpenAI’s broader strategy to capture data on users’ web behavior
So, not really a new browser but new spyware..
It's not a new browser if it's built from the same. Chromium baseline.
Which I'm sure it will be
- It is based on Chromium according to the article.
  Edited to quote the article:
  OpenAI's browser is built atop Chromium, Google's own open-source browser code, two of the sources said.
Firefox for the win!
Lol. Right. I'll get right on using browser made by an a. I company. What a friggin joke

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