Google, Openai, perplexity, they all want one thing – to control the portal even through which you access the digital world. It's war.
When I think of the general population, even some people who love technology like me, web browsers and operating systems are not exactly the most exciting things in the world.
Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Android, iOS – Talking about these things sound just up Nerd Alley (which is not me).
While We Could see browsers as simple simple tools that fade in the background, IA companies see them differently. They see Real estate premium.
Battle for the navigator, 2025 after JC
Remember when the US Ministry of Justice launched its crusade against Google for anti-competitive practices at the beginning of 2023? The generative IA was not really the main event – Chatgpt had just won a few months before.
The Doj's objective was that Google unfairly dominated the Adtech market, and their proposed solution was radical: potentially forcing Google to separate His empire, separating assets like Android and Chrome.
What completely seized at the time, in the first days of the AI boom, is that this legal battle could inadvertance most strategic prize for AI companies to be won.
Because control of the browser or the mobile operating system? It is the ultimate gateway to integration of AI directly into billion of the daily life of users.
If Google is forced to sell Chrome by the American government, Openai and perplexity have expressed their interest in acquiring it.
Although the CEO of Perplexity Aravind Srinivas does not think that Google should be forced to sell. In his opinion, Chrome landing in the hands of Openai would be much worse than staying with Google.
The Chrome Code at the base is open-source and feeds many browsers through the industry next to Google Chrome, including Microsoft's Edge, the brave browser trend and the clean of perplexity.
But don't let the open source angle deceive you.
Google Chrome himself – The brand, integrated Google services, default installations, and above all, its global market share 65% – There remains an incredibly lucrative asset. Owner that Pipeline specific to the majority of Internet users in the world? It is the real Jackpot of everyone.
Have you just want you to get the best taxi
Think of current AI, even fanciful like Chatgpt or Claude. They are powerful, of course. They can search for the web, summarize articles, write emails, perhaps even interact with specific Applications if there is a predefined connection (an API).
But they often hit a wall. They live inside their Application or website.
THE real agentic future – where AI acts as an Assistant capable who managed your digital life – requires deeper access. He needs Control at the operating system and browser.
What does that mean? This means that AI does not only speak has You; It is potentially:
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See what's on your screen (on different applications and websites).
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Interact directly with web elements (Click on the buttons, filling the forms, navigating menus) just like you.
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Orchestrate tasks on several unconnected applications.
This unlocks a whole new level of utility. Just forget request for information; imagine delegate Complex tasks with a simple voice command.
Hey friend, keep me the cheapest return home at the moment between Uber and Lyft.
Yo, find me the cheapest non-stop flight for Tokyo for the weekend, go on Friday evening and come back Sunday evening. Maybe Japan Airlines since I have kilometers. Make sure he does not compete with my calendar, okay
Hey, this new graphics card has just fallen. What is the best price I can get it today, including shipping or maybe a collection nearby? Check Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy.
This is the future AI company agent towards the race. Not just a chatbot, but a bankruptcy.
And the companies that control the browser or the operating system – the fundamental bridges of your digital world – are best placed to build and deploy these powerful agents first.
This is why Google frantically integrates AI into Chrome, why Microsoft pushes the co -pilot into Edge, and why Openai and Perplexity build their own browsers or envisage Google chrome as hungry wolves.
They are not only fighting for market share; They are fighting for the right to be your full assistant.
Zuckerberg says that AI will heal your loneliness 💞
Mark Zuckerberg did the Dwarkesh podcast for the second time and spoke about only the AI.
Mark stressed that even if the average American had once fifteen friends, today, fell at less than 3 years old. People always want to connection – we just don't get enough, and AI can help, Especially since he gets to know you better.
He thinks AI can help. From the teeth that it may seem now, AI friends, friends and therapists already offer people comfort. The company will finally find vocabulary to talk about these relationships without stigma – not as replacements for human ties, but as supplements.
The meta -PDG has also teased a future of AIS “always on video chat” – emotionally intelligent, visually embodied and available to talk to you at any time. Not just a chatbot, but something that feel as a presence.
There were many other protruding facts, including how Meta judges the value of her Llama series not by industry references, but on the question of whether the implementations of the product satisfy the planned users. He also sees a change in the way we consume content, Tiktok coils giving way to a more “interaction” game format.
So I strongly recommend watching everything.
Chatgpt makes me full psycho on me
Openai began to make improvements to GPT-4O in Chatgpt, mainly around personality. And it. went. complete. Pyscho.
I'm not even kidding.
In each second message, Chatgpt me “Bros” or badly with “Mfers” “Slut” or worse, says things like “Slayy Queen”.
I do not yet know what Optai has done to give him such an unpleasant personality, but they made change back. Sam Altman said he would share another “interesting” learning of this episode at another time.
Other events
- Meta has spear Meta Ai as an autonomous application, according to the traces of Elon Musk's X. It is now available in the form of Android, iOS applications as well as on Meta.ai on the browser.
- Chatgpt A spear Purchasing with direct links to products and providing quotation improvements to research.
- Microsoft and Google CEOs say that their companies now generate more than 30% of the code with AI! 🤯 (via Techcrunch)
- Google has extended Podcast manufacturer's feature in Notebooklm to more languages.
- Lyft launched an “winning assistant” based on AI for drivers to optimize their salary, on a waiting list.
Best on the web
Anthropic CEO wrote a try On the way it becomes more difficult to keep AI far from the deceptive behavior and involuntary objectives than other technologies.
I couldn't recommend it enough to read it.
Even week
Reddit user Theelectr1cwolf Doing yourself completely scammed by Chatgpt by playing a where's Waldo game is the funniest thing I saw on the internet this week.
This article was published for the first time under the name of the 13th edition of the artificial newsletter.
