OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas: A Standalone AI Browser for the Web

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ChatGPT Launches Atlas, Redefining Web Browsing

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, a new browser for macOS built around the ChatGPT assistant itself. It’s not an extension—it’s a re-imagined browser where AI sits inside your workflow.

Atlas understands the page you’re viewing, answers questions in context, and can take direct actions like searching, summarizing, or completing forms. A new Agent Mode allows ChatGPT to plan and execute tasks such as researching vendors, compiling notes, or booking appointments—all without switching tabs.

It also introduces Browser Memories, which let ChatGPT recall information from sites you’ve visited to provide continuity across sessions. Users can view, archive, or delete memories anytime, and incognito mode disables them completely. Atlas rolls out worldwide today for Free, Plus, Pro, and Business users, with Windows and mobile versions coming soon.

OpenAI emphasizes control: browser data isn’t used for model training unless you opt in, and parental controls and memory visibility settings carry over from ChatGPT. Still, the arrival of an agent-enabled browser marks a major shift—the moment AI begins to live inside the web itself.

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Google’s Quantum Echoes Algorithm Delivers Verifiable Quantum Advantage

Google Quantum AI has achieved the first hardware-based, verifiable quantum advantage using its Willow chip and a new algorithm called Quantum Echoes.

In tests published in Nature, Willow solved molecular-structure simulations 13,000× faster than one of the world’s top supercomputers. The algorithm’s results can be independently reproduced on other quantum devices—proof that the outcome isn’t just random noise.

The technique functions like a “quantum ruler,” measuring atomic distances through amplified interference patterns. Partnering with UC Berkeley, Google used Quantum Echoes to map molecules containing 15 and 28 atoms, confirming its accuracy against standard NMR data.

This milestone pushes quantum computing out of the theoretical realm and into applied science, with early implications for drug design, advanced materials, and clean-energy research.

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AI Pioneers Call for a Pause on Superintelligence

Hundreds of scientists, technologists, and public figures (including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Steve Wozniak, Richard Branson, and Yuval Noah Harari) signed an open letter urging a temporary halt to systems that could surpass human cognition. It warns of risks to freedom, privacy, and national security as frontier AI races ahead.

The Security Risks with AI Web Browsers

Security researchers are flagging serious concerns around AI-driven browsers like Atlas and Perplexity Comet. Because these agents can click, fill forms, and access logged-in sessions, they open the door to prompt injection attacks — malicious text hidden on web pages that trick the agent into leaking data or executing commands.

OpenAI’s “logged-out mode” and Perplexity’s live threat scans help, but the Brave team calls the issue “systemic.” Until tighter sandboxing arrives, users should limit agent permissions and keep sensitive accounts separate.

OpenAI Buys Sky

OpenAI acquired Sky, a Mac interface from the creators of Apple’s Workflow (now Shortcuts). Sky acts as a desktop assistant layer that can see what’s on your screen and help you write or code, hinting at deeper integration between ChatGPT and macOS.

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How Text Diffusion Actually Works

Text diffusion models (a new approach to language generation) generate language the way image diffusion models generate pictures — by gradually denoising noise into coherence. Instead of writing one token at a time like GPT, they rewrite the entire sequence repeatedly, each pass removing noise and predicting cleaner tokens.

Instead of predicting the next token, these models use bidirectional attention, allowing every token to see full context at each step. It’s the same principle behind BERT’s masked language modeling, extended across multiple mask rates (from fully masked to fully visible) creating a full-text “rewrite loop.”

Recent experiments show that even encoder models like RoBERTa can generate text when trained this way. By iteratively masking and denoising, they blur the line between understanding and generation — pointing toward a future where diffusion replaces autoregression as the foundation of language modeling.

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