0.01 is a multiple!

Perhaps they are hoping Google will pay them ~$500m/yr to be the default search engine.

I would guess by selling personal data and ads.

More charitably by selling the only browser that's actually usable in a few years. The AI will be used to cancel out the effect of other people's AI.

There’s Orion, Zen, plenty of minor browser projects that aspire to better experiences than the majors’. Brave is likely much more widespread than Arc, though that one is monetized via the previous trend (crypto). Never even heard of a lot of these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrxhVA5NVQ4

Putting the agent into your user agent.

There have been a few extremely popular remastered games the last few years and the internet is full of people cranky because folks are posting replies to five year old internet threads about the game.

Well what do you expect people to do when the only non slop result on page 1 is a 5 to 8 year old thread? It’s the top link. You’re still relevant whether you want to be or not. Fuckin deal.

Ha, that's a dark timeline! But sadly quite probable.