A bombshell was dropped on the AI industry when an August 2025 USENIX study found that AI browsers violate user privacy by collecting customer browsing data. Conducted by researchers at the University ...

Every era of the web has transformed how humans create, consume and act on information: from browsing static pages in Web 1.0 to finding ways to connect and interact in Web 2.0 to layering ...

About a month ago, I gave a tech demo to a bunch of freshman students on how to create a custom skill in an AI browser and automate the research work on assignments. Instead of bogging them down with ...

A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer ...

Most of us browse the internet the same way: we hop on our favorite web browser. For the past decade or so, that’s been Google Chrome. It is the most popular web browser in the world, and it isn’t ...

Web browsers are among the most essential pieces of software we use daily, yet we often take them for granted. Most users settle for whatever default ships with their devices -- and that's a mistake.

Maybe it's time we rethink just how much we're depending on AI these days, before it blows up in our faces. Just saying! I think by this point we can all agree that AI is not exactly trustworthy when ...