Bytes: Week in Review - OpenAI officially joins the browser wars

Marketplace Tech

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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OpenAI released its new web browser, Atlas, in a bid to become our main conduit to the internet. Plus, we learned this week that Amazon may be planning to expand its use of robots and shrink its use of humans at its warehouses. And this week's disruptive outage at Amazon Web Services reminded us of just how much we depend on cloud computing, even for a good night's sleep. Marketplace’s Nova Safo discussed all of this with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at the venture firm Collab Capital, for this week’s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

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0:44.9	Novosafo. It's our Friday week in review episode, and we're looking at OpenAI's new web browser, Atlas.
1:01.6	The chat GPT maker is challenging Google's immensely popular Chrome to become our main conduit to the internet.
1:08.6	Also, we learned this week that Amazon may be planning to expand
1:12.2	its use of robots and maybe shrinking its use of humans at its warehouses. And this week's
1:18.8	disruptive outage at Amazon Web Services reminded us of just how much we depend on cloud computing
1:25.8	even for good night's sleep.
1:28.2	To discuss all of this, we connected with Jewel Burke-Solomon,
1:31.5	managing partner at the venture firm Collab Capital,
1:34.4	and we began with OpenAI's new web browser,
1:37.6	the startup touted features like Agent Mode,
1:40.1	where AI can take over and complete tasks for you
1:43.1	with little or no human intervention.
1:46.0	Agent mode is only also available if you have a paid OpenAI subscription, so that's something to call out.
1:54.1	But in agent mode, you can give the browser a task. So I tried the task of getting the browser to purchase a suit. We have an
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