The Browser Wars Are Back, And This Time They’re Powered By Ai

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12:00 PM PDT · October 24, 2025

The browser wars are heating up again, this clip pinch AI successful nan driver’s seat.

OpenAI conscionable launched Atlas, a ChatGPT-powered browser that lets users surf nan web utilizing earthy connection and moreover includes an “agent mode” that tin complete tasks autonomously. It’s 1 of nan biggest browser launches successful caller memory, but it’s debuting pinch an unsolved information flaw that could expose passwords, emails, and delicate data.

Watch arsenic Max Zeff, Anthony Ha and Sean O’Kane break down Atlas’s debut, nan broader activity of replacement browsers, nan AWS crash that collapsed overmuch of nan internet, and much of nan week’s startup and tech news connected TechCrunch’s Equity podcast.

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Theresa Loconsolo is an audio shaper astatine TechCrunch focusing connected Equity, nan network’s flagship podcast. Before joining TechCrunch successful 2022, she was 1 of 2 producers astatine a four-station conglomerate wherever she wrote, recorded, voiced and edited content, and engineered unrecorded performances and interviews from guests for illustration lovelytheband. Theresa is based successful New Jersey and holds a bachelors grade successful Communication from Monmouth University.

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