A new AI browser logs into your accounts and handles the grunt work while you run your business.

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You know the tasks. Cancel that subscription you forgot about. Fill out that vendor form. Research three competitors before a call. None of it is hard, but all of it eats your afternoon.

Aside is a new browser built by a YC-backed team that actually does those things for you. Here's how it works: the browser watches your normal browsing, builds a local memory of your habits and the sites you use (stored on your device, not their servers), and uses that to sign into your accounts automatically. No copy-paste, no "enter your password again," no hand-holding. You tell it to cancel an unused subscription or pull competitive pricing from three websites, and it goes.

Think of it like a really attentive intern who already knows all your passwords and has been watching over your shoulder long enough to know your way around. Except it doesn't take a lunch break.

The team says Aside sits at number one on three browser-agent benchmarks right now. That's a technical brag, but what it means practically is that when tested against other AI browsers on doing real web tasks, this one finishes more of them correctly. You can try it today, which puts it ahead of most "coming soon" agent products that have been teasing this kind of thing for two years.

If you're a small business owner living inside browser tabs, running five SaaS tools, doing your own research, and handling your own admin, this is worth a look. Not because it's magic. Because the time it saves is very real and very boring time that you'll be glad to give up.

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One more item worth knowing: Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash model just got computer use capabilities, meaning it can now operate a browser or desktop app the way a human would, clicking buttons and filling fields. "Computer use" is the technical term for an AI model that doesn't just generate text but actually controls a screen. Think of it as the difference between a GPS that gives you directions and one that grabs the steering wheel.

The reason this matters for owners: Flash is one of Google's cheaper, faster models. If you've been curious about automating web-based tasks but didn't want to pay premium model prices, this opens a lower-cost lane. Google released a GitHub repo for local testing, so if you have someone even slightly technical on your team, it's worth a poke.

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