OpenAI's new web browser has ChatGPT baked in. That's raising some privacy questions

OpenAI's new web browser has ChatGPT baked in. That's raising some privacy questions

John Ruwitch

November 07, 2025 / 12:27 pm

OpenAI's new web browser, Atlas, has been available for less than two weeks — and only on Apple computers, for now — but it's getting a lot of attention .

That's because it's a new kind of browser in a market dominated by Google Chrome. And it comes from OpenAI, the leader in AI chatbots, at a time when artificial intelligence is starting to give traditional web search a run for its money .

"We think that AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to re-think what a browser can be about," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a livestream to launch the browser.

Atlas comes with ChatGPT baked in, and while it can navigate the web like traditional br