One of the many sites of conflict over AI use on the Internet is about the use of “agentic” Web browsers: those that incorporate AI features where the user can give the AI instructions and then let it interact with the site independently. For example, you might ask your browser to book travel and it would then go to travel sites, look at the various flights, and eventually buy tickets.
Because these features are integrated with the browser, the AI agent does all of this work acting as you and interacting with the site using the same UI mechanisms you would (links, buttons, form fields, etc.). This means that the site doesn’t need to provide any AI-specific affordances because the browser can just use the existing site; it also means that the user can use AI on the site whether the site wants them to or not. — Read More
Daily Archives: June 25, 2026
AI coding will soon get pricier than human developers
The rise in price of tokens will lead AI coding to become more expensive than an average developer’s salary by 2028, according to a Gartner report released Wednesday. The shift will happen as consumption-based pricing overtakes subscription models among key providers.
Adopting AI into software workflows has become the default, leading employees to spend less time writing code and more time managing AI outputs.
As AI use proliferates the enterprise, the cost is adding up, especially in engineering departments, Gartner found. Token overspending was linked to how software engineering leaders govern usage, with many using ungoverned, autonomous agents in their workflows. — Read More
OpenAI unveils first chip as part of Broadcom deal in effort to ‘build the full stack’
OpenAI and Broadcom on Wednesday unveiled their debut custom chip, called Jalapeño, marking the ChatGPT maker’s first entry into artificial intelligence silicon.
The chips will be made by Broadcom and used by OpenAI for inference, the compute-intensive process of serving its AI models to users in ChatGPT and other applications. — Read More
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