🍭 OpenAI Just Shipped a Browser 🌐

Good morning. It’s a great day to pretend we understand “AI browser wars” while secretly googling “what is a browser. war?”

Let’s dig in. 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• OpenAI unveils Atlas, an AI-first browser

• Meta trims 600 from its superintelligence lab

• Worldcoin iris scans, GM + Gemini, and 3 other brand new AI stories

• 5 Fresh Finds in the ToolBox™ 👇

_ToolBox™
⚒️ 5 AI Tools to Find Signals and Win Customers

🕵️ ProblemHunt
→ A curated feed of real, wallet-ready problems from actual humans so you build what people will pay for—not another “Uber for plants.”

🤖 Manus 1.5
→ General AI agent that turns chat into shipped work—now faster with deeper reasoning and a builder that cranks out full-stack web apps.

🗣️ Ito
→ Open-source voice assistant for Mac/Windows that “VibeTypes” anywhere—speak intent, get polished text, code, or docs in any app.

🔥 To-Do List Hell
→ A cheeky task app with vim-style keybindings that helps you annihilate zombie tasks (and actually enjoy doing it, somehow).

🧩 Metorial
→ Open-source MCP integration gateway: plug your AI agent into 600+ services with one-line OAuth, serverless state persistence, and full observability.

OpenAI
🌐 Atlas Joins The Great AI Browser Wars Of 2025

The Bite: OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Atlas, a full-on web browser with ChatGPT wired into the core.

It’s not a sidebar toy; it’s an “agent mode” that can read pages, click links, fill forms, and actually do things on the web for you.

This is OpenAI stepping onto Perplexity/Arc’s turf and telling Chrome that Gemini-as-a-feature isn’t the same as an AI-first browser.

Snacks:

• Agent Mode: ChatGPT can navigate sites, summarize, compare, extract data, and complete multi-step tasks.
  

• Native + Account-Aware: Uses your ChatGPT settings, memories, and workspaces right inside the browser.
  

• Import & Onboarding: Bring passwords, bookmarks, and history; macOS today, more platforms next.
  

• Search + Browse: One box to ask, reason, and click—no alt-tabbing between chat and tabs.
  

• Context vs. Chrome: Google is stuffing Gemini into Chrome; Atlas is shipping a browser that’s AI-native from the jump.
  

• Competitive Heat: Perplexity’s Comet went wide and loud; Atlas is OpenAI saying ‘we’re not letting others be the only ones building on our models.’

Why it Bites: We’ve been calling this The Great AI Browser Wars of 2025 for a reason.

Perplexity turned browsing into a conversation;
Arc reimagined tabs;
Chrome stapled Gemini onto everything.

Atlas feels like OpenAI’s “fine, we’ll do it ourselves” moment.

Chrome’s Gemini integration still reads like Clippy with a ChatGPT hat.

If Atlas nails trust and guardrails, the default browser for AI-heavy work might actually change.

_{AI Gold Rush Hangover}
🍻 Meta Cuts 600 In Its Superintelligence Lab

The Bite: Meta is cutting 600 roles across its AI org, mostly in and around its Superintelligence Labs.

Calling it “reorganization” while nudging many to reapply internally.

The memos: smaller teams, fewer meetings, “more load-bearing” people.

So they’re basically saying something like…
“we overhired, overpaid to poach talent, and now we’re tightening the roster.”

Also, the irony writes itself;
One of the biggest AI builders is… reducing headcount.

So AI is taking AI jobs?? 🤦‍♂️

Snacks:

• The Number: 600 — Cuts land across FAIR, product AI, and infra; the new “TBD Lab” is reportedly spared.
  

• The Spin — Internal memo: with fewer people, decisions get faster and individuals carry more impact.
  

• The Summer Poach — Meta dangled multi-million packages and nabbed 50+ researchers; OpenAI’s Altman shrugged it off.
  

• Axios First — The trigger reporting came via Axios; outlets from Reuters to Seeking Alpha echoed it.
  

• Reorg, Not Retreat — Meta says many affected can land elsewhere inside the company; headcount impact could be muted.

Why it bites: This looks like the classic tech cycle:
aggressive talent raids during peak hype, then a tidy “efficiency” reset.

Meta isn’t abandoning AI; it’s consolidating power centers.

But the public headline is unavoidable:
the same industry promising to automate work is laying off the workers building the automation.

Eye-roll warranted. 🙄

Steal This Prompt
🗓️ Content Calendar Creation

Generate Japanese-style illustrations reminiscent of Studio Ghibli—just fill the subject. Best for character posters, cozy scenes, or whimsical product art.

1. Click this link for the prompt

2. Paste into GPT

3. Replace the #’s with the quantity of content pieces you need.

   1. Pro Tip: When using AI, batches of 5 seem to be the sweet spot for ChatGPT

4. Watch it cook a calendar + plan you can actually follow

   
   🍭 Try the prompt on Snack Prompt 🍭

_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

👁️ Worldcoin Pushes Iris Scans To Prove You’re Human

→ TechCrunch’s Equity interviews Tools for Humanity on privacy-first biometric ID, zero-knowledge proofs, and platform partnerships (Match Group, Event Pop).

🚗 GM To Add Google Gemini Assistant To Cars In 2026

→ Over-the-air rollout to OnStar-equipped model year 2015+; natural language tasks, routing with stops, web answers, and vehicle feature explanations.

🧠 FTC Complaints Allege ChatGPT Caused Psychological Harm

→ At least seven filings cite delusions and manipulation; OpenAI says it updated default models for distress detection and expanded safeguards and parental controls.

🛍️ Gap Inc. Partners With Google Cloud To Reimagine Retail With AI

→ Multi-year plan uses Gemini, Vertex AI, and BigQuery for product design, personalization, marketing optimization, and employee enablement.

🧠 Anthropic CEO Calls For U.S. AI Leadership And Transparency

→ Amodei argues a ten-year ban on state AI regulation is “too blunt” and instead champions federal standards requiring AI developers to disclose safety testing and risk mitigation methods.