Researchers say a vulnerability in Perplexity’s Comet AI browser could expose local files and credentials through malicious calendar invites.

New AI-powered web browsers such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet are trying to unseat Google Chrome as the front door to the internet for billions of users. A key selling point of ...

I first discovered browser agents, an AI system that controls a browser end-to-end, while running tests on a large web application. Our team used to spend days manually clicking through key user flows ...

While computer-use models are still too slow and unreliable, browser agents are already becoming production-ready, even in critical sectors such as healthcare and insurance. In January 2025, OpenAI ...

Introduction: The Evolution of Browser Security For two decades, the web browser served as the primary security frontier for digital interactions. The logic was clear: the browser represented the lens ...

Researchers found that interest in AI agents has undoubtedly skyrocketed in the last year or so. Research papers mentioning “AI Agent” or “Agentic AI” in 2025 more than doubled the total from 2020 to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Republished on July 3 with further advice from SquareX on defending ...