TechCrunch: OpenAI’s new browser is a broadside shot at Google. “With Atlas, ChatGPT can now collect context directly from a user’s browser window — providing a lot of extremely valuable data for ad targeting. It’s an unprecedented level of direct browser access: literally looking at the words on your screen as you type them. And after decades of privacy scares, it’s not the kind of sensitive information that users are likely to give to Google or Meta.” Perhaps I’m too old or too cynical, but I can’t help the uneasy feeling that AI browsers are going to end up being the Adobe Flash of 21st century Internet. Really don’t want to go back to critical security updates every two minutes.