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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 18, 2026Published at 2:13 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI's ChatGPT Chrome Extension Now Reads Open Tabs and Controls Them in Work Mode
The update gives the extension's 7 million users an agent that can send messages, fill forms and download files inside Google's browser, after OpenAI shut down its own Atlas browser.
OpenAI updated its ChatGPT extension for Chrome so that the assistant can read a user's open tabs through an @chrome command and operate the browser directly. In Chat mode, the model pulls information from several open tabs to answer a ques…
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