OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT beyond its website with the launch of a new Chrome extension that can understand the contents of the webpage you’re viewing. The extension allows users to ask questions about a page, summarize articles, explain complex concepts, and even kick off longer AI-powered tasks without leaving their browser.
The move positions ChatGPT as a direct competitor to Google’s Gemini in Chrome, which introduced similar context-aware browsing features earlier this year. While both tools aim to bring AI directly into web browsing, they take slightly different approaches to productivity and automation.
According to OpenAI, the new extension gives ChatGPT access to the active webpage, allowing it to answer questions using the page’s content as context rather than requiring users to copy and paste text into a separate chat window. Users can request summaries, explanations, translations, or ask follow-up questions while continuing to browse.
The extension also supports longer-running tasks through ChatGPT’s agent capabilities, enabling users to delegate more complex requests directly from the browser. Rather than interrupting a browsing session, OpenAI’s goal is to keep AI assistance available alongside the page being viewed.
Google has been pursuing a similar vision with Gemini in Chrome, which lives inside Chrome’s side panel. Like ChatGPT’s extension, Gemini can summarize webpages, explain difficult concepts, answer questions about the current tab, and generate text without forcing users to switch tabs. It also uses the contents of the active webpage to provide context-aware responses.
However, Gemini currently offers deeper integration with Google’s ecosystem. Beyond webpage analysis, it can work across up to 10 browser tabs, summarize information from multiple pages simultaneously, and connect with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and other Workspace apps. Google has also begun rolling out Auto Browse, an agentic feature that can complete multi-step tasks such as navigating websites, filling forms, and making bookings with user approval.
For users, the biggest benefit is convenience. Instead of copying paragraphs into an AI chatbot, both browser assistants bring conversational AI directly into the browsing experience. They can explain research papers, summarize lengthy news articles, answer questions about documentation, draft emails based on webpage content, or simplify technical information in real time.
The competition also signals a broader shift in how AI assistants are evolving. Rather than existing as standalone chatbots, they are becoming browser-native productivity tools that understand what users are looking at and eventually what they are trying to accomplish.
OpenAI’s Chrome extension brings ChatGPT much closer to Google’s browser experience, but Google still holds an advantage through its tight integration with Chrome and Workspace. As both companies continue adding agentic capabilities, the battle is shifting from building better chatbots to creating smarter browsers that can read, understand, and eventually act on behalf of users.
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.
Nearly a month after announcing the GPT-6.1 Sol model, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Terra today. The latest addition to the family focuses on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and professional work, while costing 50% less through the API than GPT-5.6 Terra.
OpenAI says Terra can handle everything from filling out browser forms and working inside spreadsheets to interpreting technical drawings and editing videos. The company says it can also complete computer-based tasks more than three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.