"Atlas comes with ChatGPT baked in, and while it can navigate the web like traditional browsers, the company says it can do much more. A feature that OpenAI calls "agentic mode" can take action, like an agent who can shop for you, make reservations, or buy plane tickets. On that livestream, Altman's colleague demonstrated how it can read an online recipe, figure out how many ingredients are needed for a set of diners, then buy the ingredients online."
"But because Atlas is intertwined with ChatGPT, it absorbs much more user data than an ordinary browser does. The browser can interact with your email, for instance, or Google docs. It can keep so-called "browser memories" details from the sites you've visited so that OpenAI can better understand you."
"OpenAI has "kind of reached the limits of what data they can get just by hoovering up all of the content that's visible on the internet without consent," said Anil Dash, a tech entrepreneur and writer."
""I think a big, big, big part of this is they are hoping to use the people who downloaded this browser as their agents to getting access to even more data," Dash said."
Atlas is a new web browser available on Apple computers that integrates ChatGPT and agentic capabilities. The browser navigates the web like traditional browsers while enabling an "agentic mode" that can take actions such as shopping, making reservations, or buying plane tickets. Demonstrations showed the browser reading recipes, calculating ingredient quantities, and purchasing items. Atlas collects more user data than ordinary browsers by interacting with email and Google Docs and storing "browser memories" of visited sites. Analysts warn that large language models require vast datasets and that Atlas may expand OpenAI's access to personal data, raising privacy risks.
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