Rhea Purohit focuses on research-driven storytelling in tech. She writes about the psychology and history of adopting new technologies.
Inside OpenAI’s Agentic Browser, Atlas
Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher on building a browser that does the chores—and what that means for the web
Feb 11, 2026 · 7 min readUpdated Jul 12, 2026
TL;DR: Today, we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I, where Dan Shipper sits down with two members of the team building OpenAI’s agentic browser Atlas, Ben Goodger, head of engineering, and Darin Fisher, member of technical staff. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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The AI labs fighting for attention during the Super Bowl call to mind another iconic Super Bowl moment: Apple’s 1984 ad for the Macintosh, which promised that the personal computer would be a source of unbound wonder, freedom, and delight.
They were right, but over time, the personal computer has also become cluttered with errands.
These “computer errands”—downloading a W-2 when tax season rolls around, hunting for the right coupon code before checkout, or navigating the unholy labyrinth of the Amazon Web Services dashboard just to change one permission setting—have taken over our digital lives. Atlas, OpenAI’s agentic browser, sprang from the idea that AI should handle this tedium for you.
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