Placing the company in direct competition with Google Chrome, the browser, now available globally on macOS, brings ChatGPT beyond its traditional chat interface and into the core of how users interact with the web. 

Atlas allows users to summarise webpages, compare products, analyse data, fill out forms, and even automate complex tasks. With its built-in “Agent Mode,” paid subscribers can delegate multi-step activities such as trip planning, online shopping, or research, all executed autonomously by ChatGPT.

In a live demo, OpenAI engineers showed ChatGPT finding an online recipe and purchasing all the required ingredients on Instacart, demonstrating the browser’s ability to handle tasks from start to finish. Versions for Windows, iOS, and Android are expected to follow soon.

Atlas is built on Chromium, the same open-source engine behind Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, ensuring full compatibility with existing websites. The browser also introduces browser memories, allowing ChatGPT to retain context from sites a user visits and use that information to provide smarter assistance later. 

Importantly, users maintain full control, they can view, archive, or delete these memories and browsing history at any time.

One early tester, college student Yogya Kalra, commended the tool’s seamless learning experience: “During lectures, I like using practice questions and real-world examples to really understand the material. 

“I used to switch between my slides and ChatGPT, taking screenshots just to ask a question. Now ChatGPT instantly understands what I’m looking at, helping me improve my knowledge checks as I go.”

According to OpenAI, Atlas is designed to create a more natural and interactive browsing experience by letting ChatGPT “come with you anywhere across the web.” The company says this integration will allow users to get work done faster, without constantly switching tabs or copying and pasting information.

Following the release, Alphabet’s shares fell by 1.8%. This reveals the market is uneasy due to the potential disruption to Google’s search advertising business. Analysts note that by embedding chat-driven search into a browser, OpenAI could eventually compete for a significant portion of Google’s ad revenue.

“Integrating chat into a browser is a precursor for OpenAI starting to sell ads, which it has yet to do so far,” said Gil Luria, analyst at D.A. Davidson. “Once OpenAI starts selling ads, that could take away a significant part of search advertising share from Google, which has around 90% of that spend category.”

Despite Chrome’s commanding 71.9% global market share, experts believe AI-native browsers like Atlas could gradually impact user behaviour, pushing the industry toward a more personalised, conversational web.

With the launch, OpenAI is leaping from being a software provider to owning part of the consumer interface. With over 800 million weekly active ChatGPT users, the company now has a massive base to build new monetisation channels, from search ads to productivity tools.

Atlas’s launch also stresses the competition between OpenAI and Google. In response to ChatGPT’s growing influence, Google has integrated its Gemini AI model into Chrome and introduced AI Overviews, blending chatbot-style summaries with traditional search results.

While Chrome still tops for now, Atlas shows browsing could become less about typing keywords, and more about having an intelligent assistant that understands, learns, and acts on behalf of the user.

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The company announced the research preview on Tuesday, saying that 1,000 subscribers on its Max plan, priced between $100 and $200 per month, will be the first to gain access. A waitlist is also open for others.

Through a Chrome extension, selected users can summon Claude in a sidebar window that stays in sync with their browsing activity. The agent can summarise pages, interact with content, and, when granted permission, even perform tasks inside the browser.

The browser is quickly becoming a focal point in the competition among AI developers. Perplexity recently released its own AI-powered browser, Comet, while Google has integrated Gemini into Chrome, and OpenAI is reportedly working on its own AI-driven browser. 

These reveal browsing has gone beyond search to handing over routine actions to automated systems.

For Anthropic, the launch is also about safety. The company admitted that browser-based agents carry real risks, including prompt injection attacks, where hidden instructions in a web page could trick the AI into carrying out harmful commands. 

Internal testing showed such attacks succeeded 23.6% of the time before mitigations. Anthropic now claims it has cut that rate to 11.2% by introducing several layers of defence.

Among them are site-level restrictions, default blocks on financial services, adult, and pirated content, and mandatory confirmations for sensitive actions such as publishing, payments, or sharing personal data. “Claude will always ask for explicit permission before taking high-risk actions,” Anthropic said in its blog post.

Google’s Chrome browser, which tops global market share, is at the centre of an antitrust case that could force the company to sell the product. If that happens, ownership of Chrome could reshape the competitive landscape. 

Perplexity has already placed an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Chrome, while OpenAI’s Sam Altman has said his company would also be willing to buy it.

This isn’t Anthropic’s first attempt to give its models control over a user’s screen. Last year, the firm tested a desktop-based agent that could operate a PC, but the early version was criticised for being sluggish and inconsistent. 

Since then, the “agentic AI” has advanced considerably, with systems like Comet and ChatGPT’s Agent showing more reliability in handling everyday digital tasks, even if they continue to struggle with more complex scenarios.

Analysts see Anthropic’s decision to limit Claude for Chrome to premium subscribers as a sign of where the industry is heading: towards new business models built around productivity tools, enterprise automation, and personalised web experiences. 

Gartner has projected that the AI security market could reach $15 billion by 2027, driven largely by demand for safe, agentic systems.

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The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-2783, was discovered by Kaspersky security researchers earlier this month.

The flaw allowed attackers to bypass Chrome’s security barriers and access users’ data. Google confirmed that hackers were actively using this exploit before the fix was released, making it a zero-day vulnerability—one that is exploited before the software vendor has a chance to address it.

Kaspersky linked the attack to a campaign they call “Operation ForumTroll”, where victims received phishing emails disguised as invitations to a Russian global political summit. Clicking the embedded link redirected them to a malicious site that immediately exploited the Chrome bug to gain unauthorised access to their data.

According to Kaspersky, the attack primarily targeted Russian media professionals and employees at educational institutions. The goal appeared to be espionage, with hackers potentially working under a state-sponsored operation. 

The security firm has not identified the perpetrators but pointed to the level of sophistication seen in government-backed cyber operations.

Zero-day vulnerabilities in browsers like Chrome are highly valuable to cybercriminals and intelligence agencies. Exploits that allow remote access to devices can fetch millions on the underground market. Last year, one exploit broker was offering up to $3 million for similar security flaws.

Google’s Response and Security Patch

Google has now rolled out an update to Chrome version 134.0.6998.177/.178 for Windows, which will be released to users in the coming days. The fix was contributed by Boris Larin (@oct0xor) and Igor Kuznetsov (@2igosha) of Kaspersky, who first reported the issue on March 20, 2025.

The company is keeping full details of the vulnerability under wraps until the majority of users receive the update. In some cases, Google restricts information when a bug affects third-party software that has yet to be patched.

While Google has resolved the issue, users are still at risk if they have not updated their browsers. Cybercriminals actively exploited this flaw, and any delay in applying the patch could leave systems exposed.

Google has urged users to update Chrome as soon as possible, stating, “We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.”

For those still using outdated versions, the Extended Stable Channel has also been updated to 134.0.6998.178 to provide security fixes.

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This was disclosed by Elvin Hu, a designer at Google, via a Twitter thread where he revealed the first look of the new Chrome logo.

“Some of you might have noticed a new icon in Chrome’s Canary update today. Yes! we’re refreshing Chrome’s brand icons for the first time in 8 years. The new icons will start to appear across your devices soon,” Hu said in the tweet.

Asides the different colour proportions, the big blue ball in the middle is now noticeably bigger and the various colour variations are designed to look more appealing on Windows, macOS and iOS.

Added to this, the logo now looks completely flat rather than having border shadows between each colour, which gives the logo a somewhat 3D look, although this varies across devices.

On ChromeOS, the logo will look more colourful to complement the other system icons, while on macOS, the logo will have a small shadow, making it appear as if it’s “popping out” of the dock. Meanwhile, the Windows 10 and 11 version has a more dramatic gradient so that it fits in with the style of other Windows icons.

“We created OS-specific customisations. We want the icons to feel recognisably Chrome, but also well crafted for each OS. For example, on Windows, the icons take on an obviously gradated look, appearing at home on Windows 10 and 11,” Hu added.

The new icon can be seen when using the Chrome Canary — the developer version of Chrome — and will be live for users across all devices with the release of Chrome 100 soon.

There are also some new icons for the beta and developer versions of the Chrome logo, with the most dramatic change being a blueprint-style icon for the beta app on iOS.

From 2008 until now, the Chrome logo has been getting gradually simpler. What started as a shiny, three-dimensional emblem has been squashed down into a 2D symbol.

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