Google has been silently downloading its 4GB Gemini Nano AI model onto Chrome users' devices without consent since at least April, while a malicious Chrome extension disguised as Perplexity AI logged …
A new Chrome extension called cwsum lets users summarize and reformat any webpage with AI in one click, supporting bilingual English and Chinese output. The extension runs locally with no analytics or…
Google has been secretly downloading its Gemini Nano AI model to eligible Chrome browsers since April 2026 without user consent, raising privacy concerns. The 4GB model powers on-device AI features an…
Google's Chrome 149 introduces a 'Select from screen' tool for Gemini, allowing users to drag a box around content on a tab and feed it directly to the AI side panel without copying or describing. The…
A ZDNET editor tested the AI features in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox to determine which browser offers the best AI experience. The editor found that each browser brings different AI capabilities, but ul…
A developer built ClassifierAI, a Chrome extension that uses TensorFlow.js to detect AI-generated articles and images on Dev.to. The model was trained on 866 images using Google's Teachable Machine. T…
Google's Gemini AI can help users create custom browser extensions in minutes, enabling them to modify web interfaces and improve productivity without coding expertise. The process involves describing…
Developer Alex Ewerlöf created LinkedOut, a free open-source Chrome extension that reveals the extensive data LinkedIn collects on users, including 54,000 data points from his 16-year account history.…
Google has introduced Modern Web Guidance and Chrome DevTools for AI Agents to help developers and AI coding assistants identify and fix web performance issues faster. Modern Web Guidance provides pra…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and SVP Nick Fox confirmed that Google Search is evolving into an agent manager, where information-seeking queries become agentic and tasks are completed within Search. Fox st…
FOMO, a new Chrome extension, tracks users' browsing behavior to place them in communities based on attention rather than self-reported identity, showing what each community is focused on in real time…
Developer Fengdu open-sourced a Chrome extension called X Search Filters that adds a visual advanced search panel to X (formerly Twitter), allowing users to filter by user, time, location, media, and …
A developer built a Chrome extension that lets users highlight text and send it to multiple AI models via a side panel in two weekends. The extension supports OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, but…
A developer tested dozens of browser extensions over two months to eliminate the copy-paste loop between web pages and AI tools. Five extensions made the cut: Vimium for keyboard navigation, 1Password…
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork in January 2026, a desktop agent for knowledge workers that automates research, file analysis, and document creation by operating on local folders and supporting sched…
Peek-CLI, an open-source tool that lets AI coding agents capture screenshots of browser tabs via a WebSocket daemon and Chrome extension, has been released. The tool works with Claude Code, Codex, and…
A developer launched a webcam motion detector that offers local and cloud storage with AI-powered person detection, starting at $10/month for premium features.…
ContextVault 1.3 unifies browser conversations, terminal sessions, and coding-agent decisions into a single searchable local context engine. The tool, built by developer Ali Abd, captures context from…
Sudipta Das, a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor at the Internet Archive, built a client-side AI extension for the Wayback Machine. The Chrome extension uses Gemini Nano to summarize archived pag…
The developer of the VisitAnalytics package for Laravel v2.4.0 implemented a bot detection system that analyzes Client Hints headers (Sec-CH-*) to distinguish human users from sophisticated bots. By d…