Apple’s Safari was set for a “renovación total de Safari diseñada específicamente para la "era de la IA"” aimed at competing with rivals like Perplexity and OpenAI, but Mark Gurman’s latest bulletin says the development is now “en pausa”.
“To reach this page, about 63% of you used Chrome, 17% used Safari, 6% used Edge, and 6% used Firefox”
The paused work included functions to “evaluar la fiabilidad de los documentos y realizar referencias cruzadas de información entre múltiples fuentes para verificar datos automáticamente,” while an internal project called World Knowledge Answers was “se ha reducido drásticamente”.
Instead of a Safari with weaker internal AI, the plan shifts to an alliance with Google so “los modelos Gemini impulsen las futuras funciones de inteligencia de Apple.”
The strategy also changes where the AI lives: it drops the idea of filling apps like Safari with standalone chatbots and centralizes the intelligence in a renewed Siri, code-named Campos, arriving with iOS 27 and macOS 27.
In parallel, ZDNET frames the near-term Safari update as powered by Apple Intelligence, including Notify Me for monitoring product restocks and other items on macOS 27 Golden Gate.
The browser wars are described as moving beyond search results toward “which company’s AI gets to act on your behalf inside the browser itself,” with Chrome and Safari still dominating overall.
TechCrunch says Perplexity’s Comet acts as a chatbot-based search engine and can perform actions like “summarizing emails” and “performing tasks such as sending calendar invites.”
In the same AI-agent framing, Comet is described as being available only to users with Perplexity’s $200/month Max plan, while other users can join a waitlist.
The Browser Company’s Dia is presented as an AI-centric browser that looks similar to Google Chrome but includes an AI chat tool, and it is “currently available as an invite-only beta.”
Opera’s Neon is also positioned as an “AI agentic browser” with contextual awareness that can do tasks while the user is offline, and its subscription costs $19.90 per month.
Beyond AI-first entrants, 01net argues that “Goodbye Google Chrome” thinking is tied to the fact that the major browsers are developed by American companies, naming Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Mozilla Foundation for Firefox.
“The AI business is no longer about generating images, videos, and answering questions in a chatbot”
In its European “sovereign browsing” selection, 01net highlights Vivaldi as a Chromium-based browser created by Vivaldi Technologies based in Norway, founded by Jon von Tetzchner, and it says Vivaldi “does not track users’ online behavior, does not generate any profile, and does not sell their data either.”
01net also describes Mullvad Browser as a Swedish browser designed to offer a privacy level equivalent to that of the Tor Browser but optimized for use with a VPN rather than the Tor network, and it is “Free and open source.”
Meanwhile, Numerama reports Samsung’s March 26, 2026 launch of “Samsung Browser for Windows,” aiming to bring the mobile experience to PC and integrate an AI agent layer.
Numerama adds that the AI assistant itself is deployed only in South Korea and the United States for now, while Samsung plans to roll it out to other markets “soon.”
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