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OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Atlas Browser On macOS

The tech company’s new macOS browser folds ChatGPT into daily web use, ahead of a wider global rollout.

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12 months ago

October 22, 2025

Nour Nasir

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OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, a Chrome-based browser that embeds its chatbot directly into the browsing window. The macOS version is out today, with Windows, Android, and iOS to follow. The move brings OpenAI into the same arena as established browsers that have begun layering generative AI tools into search and navigation.

Atlas lets users call up ChatGPT inside any text field or tab. In a live demo, an OpenAI staffer used it to polish an email draft in Gmail, showing how the chatbot can handle quick writing tasks without leaving the page. A sidebar can stay open for ongoing chats, and a prompt bar appears automatically in new tabs.

The browser adds a “memory” option that recalls user preferences and past activity — for example, reopening a product page by command. The setting is optional, with full deletion controls and private browsing. OpenAI said none of this data will be used to train its models, a point likely aimed at easing privacy concerns as AI tools move deeper into personal workflows.

A preview “Agent Mode,” available to Plus, Pro, and Business users, lets ChatGPT carry out tasks such as booking flights, editing documents, or searching online independently. “It can help you book reservations or flights or even just edit a document that you’re working on,” explained Adam Fry, product lead for ChatGPT Search.

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CEO Sam Altman framed Atlas as an overdue step in browser evolution. “Tabs are great but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then,” he noted.

With Atlas, OpenAI joins a growing wave of “agentic” browsers from firms like Opera and Perplexity, while Google readies deeper Gemini integration in Chrome. For the wider market — including emerging digital economies in the Middle East — the launch signals a new phase where browsing, search, and AI productivity converge inside a single interface.

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NEOPAY Wants To Follow Merchants Across Channels And Borders

A controlling 65% stake in noon payments would give NEOPAY access to marketplace sellers, online merchants and the payment flows they generate.

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1 day ago

October 5, 2026

Nour Nasir

neopay wants to follow merchants across channels and borders

It’s been a long time since checkouts were single defined places. A merchant might take payments at a physical register, on its own website and through an online marketplace, sometimes in more than one country. NEOPAY wants to follow those transactions wherever they happen.

The UAE payments company has entered into an agreement to acquire a 65% controlling stake in noon payments. NEOPAY already runs the acquiring infrastructure that lets merchants accept card payments, along with omnichannel acceptance and a merchant services platform. This new deal would add noon payments’ embedded payments platform, e-commerce gateway and merchant network across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. That would considerably expand both NEOPAY’s digital commerce capabilities and its regional reach.

For merchants, the attraction is a single provider for online and in-store payments, plus faster settlements, data and analytics, and value-added financial services.

“Payments should be simple, reliable, and built for the markets they serve,” said Faraz Khalid, CEO of noon. His counterpart at NEOPAY, Vibhor Mundhada, added: “We have built a strong payments business in the UAE, and our ambition is now to take that capability across the region”. The acquisition, Mundhada added, would “expand our footprint into Saudi Arabia and Egypt” while reinforcing NEOPAY’s position at home.

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NEOPAY is also keen to point out potential payment volume increases. The company says noon payments’ integrations with marketplace sellers and online merchants create high transaction density in some of the region’s fastest-growing digital commerce segments. It also believes control of the business would give it access to those merchant relationships and payment flows, and speed up the rollout of alternative payment methods and installment options.

The combined roadmap targets faster merchant onboarding, better payment performance, tighter fraud controls and embedded financial services. The deal could also strengthen cross-border payments and settlement along key regional commerce corridors.