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OpenAI's browser, launched last year and since discontinued in favor of web access inside ChatGPT.
OpenAI updated its ChatGPT Chrome extension so Chat can read open tabs and the Work agent can send messages and fill out forms. The Verge compares Work's tab control to Gemini's auto browse, and Engadget says OpenAI retired its own browser on August 9.
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Firefox's Exa-powered assistant appears only to users who switch it on, a wager that restraint sells where default-on assistants have not.
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The September 16 partnership gives Firefox's beta assistant retrieval with sources, tab grouping and history previews, and each request only sees the tabs and history you grant it. Beta coverage is the US, Canada and France.
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Relay shut down on Monday after five years, outpaced by automation OpenAI and Google built into their own tools. The other entries on the list failed on cost, retention, privacy or engineering, and S&P Global counts competition as one abandonment cause in five.
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1Password sorts the agents it sees in production into six identity profiles. The useful test is whether any of them can lend an agent production rights mid-task and take them back afterwards.
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