At least twice a year, I’ll download a new browser, open it up, and see if the web looks better through a different window. It never does — or at least it didn’t until recently.

We’ve entered a new era of AI-powered browsers. They have names like Comet, Dia, and Neon, and they all make the same promise: to do things for you on the web.

The web is broken, increasingly full of AI slop, and surfing it sucks. Maybe AI agents should do the searching, clicking, and thinking instead? Or at least, maybe they can speed things up. That might mean summarizing a news article, filling out a form, or buying your groceries. ChatGPT Atlas, which OpenAI launched on Tuesday, operates as a search engine of sorts, replacing the ubiquitous Google Search bar at the top with a ChatGPT prompt box. Even Google C

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