OpenAI’s Atlas Browser – or “Let’s Kill Chrome Slowly and Painfully”

Right, so apparently OpenAI’s decided it doesn’t have enough toys to wreck the internet with, so they’ve trotted out this shiny new contraption called “Atlas.” It’s supposed to be a web browser—because apparently Chrome’s monopoly wasn’t a big enough joke already. The Atlas Browser is built on Chrome’s guts (because why invent something from scratch when you can just nick Google’s homework?) but OpenAI’s slapping their AI crap all over it. They swear blind it’s “smarter,” “safer,” and “AI-assistant friendly.” Translation: it’s another damn tool that’ll read your emails, track your clicks, and probably order a pizza you didn’t want—only this time with more smug marketing.

The Big Brains at OpenAI are pitching it as a place for “autonomous web agents” (fancy speak for bots that’ll do your browsing for you) so people don’t have to, you know, *click stuff themselves*. Because apparently scrolling through Reddit has become too bloody exhausting for the human race. Oh, and OpenAI thinks it’ll “reimagine how users interact with the web.” Right. That’s just corporate-speak for “we’ll monitor everything, but this time you’ll thank us for it.”

Meanwhile, Google’s probably flipping a table somewhere, because OpenAI’s basically waltzed into their living room, used their sofa, eaten their snacks, and declared it their new headquarters. Atlas being Chrome-based just rubs the salt in—it’s like repackaging Pepsi in a Coke can and claiming it’s innovation. The tech world, in short, is collectively losing its shit over *another* browser that we totally didn’t ask for, built by the same folks who think a chatbot should run your life.

Anyway, it’s another shiny layer of nonsense on top of the already teetering tower of digital chaos. By next year, we’ll have AI agents fighting each other online for who gets to autocomplete our Google searches. I can hardly wait to watch the internet implode in real time.

Original article here, if you fancy some corporate double-speak and tech evangelism of the highest order:
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-atlas-browser-chrome-agents-web-browsing/

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