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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, October 31st. I'm Bell Lin for The Wall Street Journal.

You've probably used a web browser like Google Chrome or Firefox to navigate the internet,

but have you tried an AI web browser yet? We're taking a look at how these new tools from Open AI and others stack up.

Plus, have you ever dreamed of outsourcing your chores to a robot?

Well, that reality is here. Sort of.

We investigate the latest humanoid housekeeper robot to enter the market,

and why there's more to it than meets the eye.

But first, the latest web browsers out there are supercharged with AI.

They might have built-in chatbots or advanced agents that can do things for you online.

I spoke with our personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen about what these AI browsers can do and why they could change the way we use the internet forever.

So Nicole, tell us the difference between an AI browser and a plain vanilla web browser. So the web browser that you've probably been using for the last decade or so is your portal to the internet.

There's a URL bar.

You type in a URL or you Google something and you go to that web page.

An AI browser is like a regular browser, except there's a little icon at the top that gives you a shortcut to an AI chatbot.

So think of it as like a normal AI browser where you can expand a side panel and ask a question at any time.

Sounds pretty simple, but the way it works is a little bit different from just talking to an AI chat bot.

Because the AI browser has

visibility into the page that you're looking at, you don't have to prompt it as much. It has

contextual awareness of what you're looking at. And so you can ask it like make this vegetarian

without actually having to spell out the recipe, for example. That also sounds like a little bit creepy from a privacy

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