What is a Browser? What is a Bubble?
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- Editorial: What is a Browser? What is a Bubble? ChatGPT Has an Answer
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Editorial
What is a Browser? What is a Bubble? ChatGPT Has an Answer
The web front door has been morphing into AI for a while now, this week it accelerated. With Atlas, OpenAI didnât bolt a chatbot onto Chrome; it turned the browser into an answer and action layer. And that has everyoneâfrom Wikipedia editors to Googleâs ad machineâreaching for the smelling salts.
Hereâs the context:
1) The browser is becoming an agent, not a link map.
- Atlas launched as a native ChatGPT browser: it is able to summarize inâpage via a right side AI panel, draft inâplace, and in preview, click and complete multiâstep tasks for you. Per OpenAIâs own docs, Agent Mode can open tabs, navigate, fill formsâan outcomeâfirst model of the web.
The backlash is immediate. Anil Dash called Atlas âantiâwebâ for rendering AI summaries that look like pages without obvious pathways back. Wikipediaâs Marshall Miller found that an
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