Weekly News #12 | Updates Worth Your Attention  👀

While many expected OpenAI to challenge Google by changing how people search for information through chat, the company took things a step further by releasing its own browser. With Atlas, you’ll be able to browse websites and ask ChatGPT questions about the page you’re on, instantly. The new Agent feature can even perform tasks that require navigating websites. Thanks to Atlas, these agents will be able to access your logged-in accounts and carry out more complex actions on your behalf.

Another major addition is memory: ChatGPT will remember your
online activity so you can ask things like “What was that hotel I looked at last week?” Of course, this also means giving ChatGPT broader insight into your browsing history, potentially letting it use that data to personalize future answers or even ads.
For now, Atlas is only available on macOS.

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This week, a major AWS outage showed how much of the internet still relies on Amazon’s cloud. A DNS issue caused major services such as IAM and DynamoDB to stop working in AWS’s oldest and busiest region, us-east-1. The failure affected banks, hospitals, and security systems. Even after the issue was fixed, recovery was slow because of the backlog of requests that had built up.

TheVerge→  | CNN→