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  By TechPulse USA It took six days, about $40,000 in AI compute, and a web page nobody had to click anything on. That is the whole scandal, and the whole story: a small security team working with a publicly available AI model built a complete attack chain for Google Chrome, the browser guarding roughly a billion Windows desktops, and Google paid them $250,000 for the privilege of being shown how. This was not a hack in the Hollywood sense. Nobody broke into a server room or guessed a password. The team at XBOW, an autonomous offensive-security company, chained three separate, previously unknown Chrome bugs together so that simply loading a malicious web page could run code outside the browser's sandbox on a Windows machine. Google has since confirmed all three bugs, fixed them, and paid the bounty. Nothing here is still live for an attacker to copy. What is still live is the question the six days ask of everyone else: if this now costs $40,000 and a week, what exactly is your se...

ChatGPT Just Moved Into Chrome to Take on Google's Browser By Daniel Rao San Francisco, October 17, 2026 OpenAI spent the better part of a year building its own browser. Then it killed it. On Thursday, the company finally admitted what the traffic numbers had been screaming all along: nobody is going to switch browsers for ChatGPT — so ChatGPT is moving into the browser everyone already uses. The announcement arrived as a thread from the official ChatGPT account on X, timestamped October 15. "A few big upgrades for Chrome users today! We're bringing the power of computer use to anyone who uses Chrome," the first post reads. Within hours it had pulled 1.2 million views. The substance is bigger than the fanfare suggests: ChatGPT can now look across every tab you have open in Chrome, and — in its Work mode — reach into those tabs and act. Send messages. Fill out forms. Download files. Tidy your tab chaos into groups. Read that again. An AI assistant that can click ...