When OpenAI dropped ChatGPT Atlas last week, tech bros lost their collective minds. A browser built around ChatGPT? From the company that's been inserting AI into everything from search to shopping carts? I had to try it. So I did something mildly reckless: made it my default browser for seven straight days to see if it could dethrone Chrome, my browser of choice since 2008. The short version? It's fine. The long version? Well, keep reading.

For the 20 minutes that OpenAI took talking up Atlas, they conveniently never mentioned that their "revolutionary" browser runs on technology developed and maintained by... Google. The irony is almost too perfect.

Atlas is Chromium under the hood. Same engine that powers Chrome, Edge, Brave, and about a dozen other browsers you've probably tried

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