OpenAI enters browser war with Atlas

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The AI browser war just got its most credible challenger yet, with OpenAI unveiling ‘Atlas’ with agent capabilities, memory features, and deep integrations throughout.

The AI leader’s long-awaited release is here, entering a crowded field with one major advantage — the ChatGPT brand. But is it enough to get users to take the leap away from the comforts of their traditional browsers?

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI enters browser war with Atlas

• Anthropic, Amodei reply to government criticism

• Ship ideas faster with Claude Code Web

• Origin AI predicts disease risk in embryos

• 4 recent AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🌐 OpenAI enters browser war with Atlas

The Rundown: OpenAI just rolled out Atlas, a brand new AI browser that embeds ChatGPT into the net experience — letting the assistant see what users are taking a look at, remember sites, and leverage agentic capabilities to finish tasks across the web.

The small print:

• Atlas is “built with ChatGPT at its core,” featuring a sidebar assistant in addition to integrations via search, personalizations, and functions like Agent mode.

• The browser includes optional “memories” that permit ChatGPT remember details from visited sites to personalize future responses and automate routine tasks.

• Agent mode enables ChatGPT to click and complete web tasks autonomously inside Atlas, with the functionality initially limited to Plus and Pro subscribers.

• OAI implemented safety guardrails stopping Atlas from downloading, accessing apps, or taking actions on sensitive sites without explicit permission.

• Atlas is initially Mac-only in preview for Plus, Pro, and Business tiers, allowing users to import bookmarks, history, and other data from their browsers.

Why it matters: We’ve heard rumblings about OAI’s browser ambitions for a 12 months, and the time has finally come. Atlas immediately threatens Comet, Dia, and other early AI browser entrants, though it doesn’t feel like a release with any groundbreaking functionalities (yet) that can push users to change from traditional options permanently.

TOGETHER WITH GLEAN

🚀 Your guide to constructing enterprise-ready AI agents

The Rundown: The Glean X AWS Guide to Constructing AI Agents for the Enterprise is a practical playbook to go from assistants to autonomous agents that handle real work end‑to‑end.

Inside, you’ll find out about:

• Methods to define agent instructions

• Setting guardrails and evaluating performance

• Managing orchestration at scale

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ANTHROPIC

🇺🇸 Anthropic, Amodei reply to government criticism

The Rundown: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei released an announcement affirming the corporate’s commitment to working with the U.S. and “American AI leadership,” coming on the heels of a series of critical comments on X from U.S. AI czar David Sacks.

The small print:

• Amodei highlighted the corporate’s $200M Department of War contract and widespread federal Claude access to “set the record straight” on policy.

• The startup also pointed to research showing Claude demonstrating less of a political slant than competing models to beat back on claims of bias.

• Sacks had characterised Anthropic as pushing “regulatory capture” to harm smaller competition, sparking heated exchanges with investor Reid Hoffman.

• Sacks also referenced previous comments from Amodei calling Trump a “feudal warlord,” saying Anthropic positioned itself as a “foe” of the administration.

Why it matters: Frontier labs are navigating a fragile balance between staying true to safety principles while maneuvering to secure government contracts and policy influence. With the tech now intertwining with the worldwide power structure, the importance of political positioning inside the industry is barely going to grow.

AI TRAINING

⚡ Ship ideas faster with Claude Code Web

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn find out how to use the brand new Claude Code Web to investigate your codebase, implement features in parallel, and ship changes directly out of your browser without switching between tools.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit claude.ai/code together with your Pro/Max account, connect GitHub via OAuth, select “Trusted Network Access”, then select your project repository

2. Prompt: “Analyze this codebase. Provide: project description, code quality assessment, five feature ideas, and refactoring priorities as a structured report”

3. Start multiple sessions within the left panel to construct features concurrently – keep them in separate files/modules to avoid conflicts (e.g., “Add profile editing to /components/Profile.jsx” in a single, “Implement email notifications in /api” in one other)

4. Review with: “As a senior engineer, review the profile editing feature for code quality, security vulnerabilities, and test gaps. Implement needed updates”

5. Click “Create PR” within the chat interface, and Claude generates formatted diffs and descriptions, then merges directly in GitHub without conflicts

Pro tip: Use the “Open in CLI” feature to get a command that connects your local terminal to the Claude Code session. This helps you to proceed the conversation locally with full IDE integration.

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• 89% of devs use AI, but few design for agents.

• 65% of organizations now generate revenue from APIs.

• 51% cite unauthorized AI agent access as a top security risk

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AI & GENETICS

🧬 Origin AI predicts disease risk in embryos

The Rundown: Nucleus Genomics just released Origin, a set of AI models that analyze embryonic DNA to predict risks for Alzheimer’s, cancers, and diabetes — also open-sourcing the technology in a primary for the IVF industry.

The small print:

• Origin scans 7M genetic markers using algorithms trained on 1.5M people, claiming to scale back disease risks by over 50%.

• Parents can screen embryos for nine conditions and a pair of,000 genetic traits with an “IVF+” package starting at $30,000, with partnerships in several major cities.

• Conditions capable of be predicted include prostate and breast cancer, Alzheimer’s, Type 1 and a pair of Diabetes, heart diseases, and more.

• The startup also launched a Genetic Optimization Hub with access to data, models, and metrics, marking the primary open-weights system for the sector.

Why it matters: While the value point actually doesn’t make the screening accessible to the common person, the open-weights release will hopefully allow others to bring AI’s predictive capabilities to a brand new era of reproductive genetics — though the ethics behind the tech (especially given the value) will proceed to be controversial.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🌐 Atlas – OpenAI’s recent AI-integrated web browser

• 👁️ DeepSeek OCR – Compress long text for LLMs by treating it as a picture

• ⚙️ Construct Mode – Latest AI-first vibe coding in Google’s AI Studio with Gemini

• 🎥 Krea Realtime – Create, modify, restyle videos via a near-instant stream

📰 All the things else in AI today

Google AI Studio launched a brand new vibe coding update, enabling users to construct and deploy web apps in minutes via natural language prompts on the platform.

Runway introduced Model Effective-tuning, giving users the brand new ability to customize the corporate’s generative video models on their very own data and for specific use cases.

Manus released version 1.5 of its AI agent platform, with upgrades including 4x faster task completion, full-stack web development capabilities, and more.

OpenEvidence is raising $200M at a $6B valuation for its “ChatGPT for Doctors” style AI platform trained on medical journals and literature for trusted clinical answers.

Britain’s Channel 4 aired the country’s first TV program hosted by an AI presenter in a segment titled ‘Will AI Take My Job?’, with using the tech being revealed at the tip to indicate “how disruptive AI has the potential to be”.

Google launched Skills, a learning platform featuring 3,000 AI and technical courses, with gamified features and employment pathways through company partnerships.

Lovable rolled out a brand new integration with Shopify, allowing users to construct and launch online stores on the platform using natural language prompts.

COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Lorna C. in Canada:

“I’m a school professor who decided to drop my old habits of policing and enforcing AI use in my classroom and embrace it. I take advantage of Nectir AI and created an AI teaching assistant for my students. I uploaded all my classroom materials, syllabus, and course content, and prompted it to make use of only my materials (no general knowledge) and never provide any answers, but as a substitute, ask prompting questions. It seems like having an additional teaching partner who will help students learn and never cheat.”

How do you employ AI? Tell us here.

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• Today’s AI tool guide: Ship ideas with Claude Code Web

• RSVP to our next workshop @ 4PM EST Friday: Learn context engineering

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown