Yesterday, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT Atlas browser—a supposedly reimagined web browser that actually looks a lot more like a forked version of Chromium with a chatbot bolted on—in an effort to redefine the way that people navigate the internet. It’s not clear that it’ll accomplish that, but it has been innovative in one way already: It’s launched a whole new set of concerns about online privacy and security.

It’s not too hard to imagine why OpenAI wanted to build a web browser: it’s the data. Browsers contain massive amounts of information, from the sites people visit to their passwords and payment information to telemetry data on where they click.

OpenAI has positioned that as a feature. “Memories” is like your web history on steroids, able to recall contextual information about the

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