Jon von Tetzchner’s renewed vow to keep generative AI out of Vivaldi’s browser has turned what might have been a niche product decision into a full‑scale manifesto about the future of the web — and a direct challenge to Google and Microsoft’s push to bake AI into the browsing experience...
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antitrust
browser market share
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content discovery
data provenance
human agency
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privacy advocacy
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publisher visibility
publishers
search economy
vivaldi
web privacy
The arrival of GPT‑5 and the public reaction to it have exposed a familiar but urgent truth: incremental technical progress can sharpen capability while exposing unresolved safety, UX and trust problems — and a single real‑world harm can erase otherwise tidy marketing narratives. The Northwest...
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aiprovenanceai safety
ai throttling
ai ux
audit trails
context window
copilot
decontextualized outputs
enterprise ai
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gpt-5
health ai risk
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mini model
model routing
safety red flags
trust in ai
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