AI-Powered Browsers Are Failing Badly
Frank Landymore
created: Dec. 6, 2025, 2 p.m. | updated: Dec. 16, 2025, 1:10 p.m.
Do AI browsers represent the future of perusing the world wide web?
It brought the still fairly niche realm of AI browsers into the spotlight and suggested that going forward they’ll be another important battleground for the tech.
Shopping, something that the likes of OpenAI have promised AI browsers and other agentic models would excel at.
Other research showed that feeding OpenAI’s Atlas fake URLs could trick it into visiting your Google Drive account and deleting files.
For now, AI browsers are less personal servant, and more something that needs to be constantly baby-sat.
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