{"id":862,"date":"2025-11-19T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/19\/ai-browsers-need-the-open-web-so-why-are-they-trying-to-kill-it-fastco\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:30:00","slug":"ai-browsers-need-the-open-web-so-why-are-they-trying-to-kill-it-fastco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/19\/ai-browsers-need-the-open-web-so-why-are-they-trying-to-kill-it-fastco\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91442335\/ai-browsers-open-web-amazon-perplexity?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss\">AI browsers need the open web. So why are they trying to kill it? (FastCo)<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI, Perplexity, and anyone else pursuing a future of AI agents have one big problem: Their vision requires destroying the ecosystem of websites they purport to help. <\/p>\n<p>For those of us who earn a living publishing content on the open internet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/retail-consumer\/perplexity-receives-legal-threat-amazon-over-agentic-ai-shopping-tool-2025-11-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon\u2019s lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity<\/a> can seem darkly amusing.<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91442335\/ai-browsers-open-web-amazon-perplexity?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI, Perplexity, and anyone else pursuing a future of AI agents have one big problem: Their vision requires destroying the ecosystem of websites they purport to help. <\/p>\n<p>For those of us who earn a living publishing content on the open internet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/retail-consumer\/perplexity-receives-legal-threat-amazon-over-agentic-ai-shopping-tool-2025-11-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon\u2019s lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity<\/a> can seem darkly amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","tag-published","h-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}