Google shipped Gemini into Chrome for Android this week, adding four AI features: a Gemini side panel for page Q&A and summaries, Nano Banana for on-device image editing, Auto Browse for autonomous mu…
Google announced at I/O 2026 that Gemini in Chrome will soon support WebMCP APIs, making it the first mainstream agent to consume WebMCP tools. This shifts the risk calculus for developers: instead of…
Vercel's agent-browser CLI now supports Lightpanda as an alternative browser engine, offering 9x faster performance and 16x less memory usage than Chrome for AI agent workflows. By using Lightpanda's …
Claude Export Hub, a new Chrome extension, allows users to export Claude.ai conversations, artifacts, and visible thinking panels as organized ZIP archives, processing all data locally in the browser …
Google is rolling out a feature in Chrome 149 that lets its Gemini AI see and select content from users' browser screens, framing it as a convenience upgrade. The company also announced that developer…
A developer created a repository that enables Cursor to use the Claude Chrome extension to analyze the currently selected browser tab and return the response to Cursor for code editing. The tool uses …
Google added a 'Select from screen' feature to Gemini in Chrome, allowing users to draw boxes around text or images in the active tab and attach them to prompts, arriving with Chrome 149. Separately, …
Google's Gemini in Chrome now includes a 'Select from screen' tool that lets users add images to prompts, rolling out with Chrome 149. Separately, the Gemini 3.5 Flash model gains native computer use …
A developer built Robot, a local AI deck music assistant on a Mac mini that uses Open WebUI, Ollama, Flask, AppleScript, Airfoil, Chrome, and Apple Shortcuts to control outdoor speakers and play YouTu…
Workdir launched an open-source API for creating, executing, and deleting Firecracker microVMs as sandboxes for AI agents, featuring sub-50ms boot times, per-second metering, and a standby mode that s…
A developer built a local AI agent browser extension called Hermes that runs entirely on the user's machine, avoiding sending browsing data to cloud LLM APIs. The extension scrapes web page context an…
Developer NotASithLord released peerd, an open-source AI agent harness that runs entirely inside the browser as a Chrome/Firefox extension, enabling agents to read and drive web pages, spin up sandbox…
Google and Microsoft co-developed WebMCP, an open web standard that lets websites expose structured, callable tools directly to browser-based agents, replacing unreliable vision-based or DOM-scraping …
Google Chrome engineer Thomas Steiner is experimenting with the proposed Cross-Origin Storage API to enable Transformers.js models to be shared across different origins, reducing redundant downloads a…
WebGPU feature detection proved insufficient for running small LLMs on phones. On an iPhone 11 Pro Max, all runs failed due to page reloads or load errors, while a Pixel 8a in LINE's in-app browser st…
MoodLens launched a Windows app for its AI-human collaboration platform, offering task management, AI workflows, and team discussions in one workspace. The company claims the product's layered AI syst…
A developer created chrome-mcp, a dedicated Chrome launcher for the chrome-devtools MCP server that isolates automation profiles from daily browsing. The tool prevents reCAPTCHA triggers and security …
A new MCP server called mcp-osascript lets Claude AI control macOS by moving windows, clicking menus, typing text, and managing browser tabs through 12 typed tools with input validation and security g…
A developer building PR Focus, a Chrome extension for triaging GitHub pull requests, opted for a hybrid AI risk score system rather than relying solely on an LLM. The system uses deterministic signals…
Chrome now ships Gemini Nano, a language model accessible via the Prompt API, enabling on-device AI without API keys or inference costs. A developer integrated it into a free Mermaid diagram editor, u…