Google is expanding Gemini in Chrome into a more context-aware desktop experience with a new Personal Intelligence beta that connects data from Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Docs to provide pe…
Anthropic launched a custom web browser inside its Claude Cowork chatbot on Wednesday, aiming to reduce reliance on Google Chrome by letting Claude perform web searches directly in a side panel. The b…
Employees spend over 80% of the working day in the browser, yet enterprise security controls remain on the network and OS, leaving the authenticated browser session unobserved and creating gaps in vis…
The browser market is fragmenting in 2026 as Chrome's global usage slips to roughly 67–70%, down about 1.9 points year over year, while Google still spends $26 billion annually on default-placement de…
Chrome's browser market share has fallen to 68.02% from a peak of 73.17%, according to Backlinko's analysis of StatCounter data, as generative AI absorbs search queries and the browser wars shift from…
Google's Manifest V3 update to Chromium has disabled the full uBlock Origin extension in Chrome and Edge, replacing the blocking webRequest API with the rule-limited declarativeNetRequest API, a chang…
Glippy released WebMCP, an MIT-licensed coding-agent plugin that lets websites expose typed tools to browser agents via document.modelContext, with a four-skill workflow for auditing, implementing, ve…
Anthropic has launched a built-in browser for Claude Cowork inside its desktop app, enabling the AI to open websites in a side panel to read, click, and type, such as filling forms or pulling data fro…
OpenAI, in partnership with Chrome, Cloudflare, Shopify, Vercel, and Netlify, has launched the WebMCP Challenge, a hackathon running from August 25 to September 3 on Devpost with $35,000 in prizes. Th…
Anthropic has launched a built-in browser for Claude Cowork in its desktop app, enabling the AI to navigate websites, read pages, and fill forms without requiring the user's own browser. The feature i…
Akto's analysis identifies six security risks in Anthropic's Claude in Chrome browser agent, including indirect prompt injection, identity inheritance, cross-origin authority, approval fatigue, and ex…
Parvej Shah's team at Leadswave, a LinkedIn brand assistant Chrome extension, overcame significant technical hurdles including style collisions, service worker lifecycle issues, and Manifest V3 constr…
A developer built a Chrome extension that identifies movies from URLs, images, or text using a consensus-based LLM approach, requiring at least two different models to agree on the title before servin…
Google and Microsoft have jointly proposed WebMCP, a draft web standard in the W3C Web Machine Learning Community Group, that lets websites declare structured tools for AI agents to call directly, rep…
Hister v0.18.0, a private personal search engine developed by asciimoo, lets users index and search web pages and local files, with support for browser history import, website crawling, and file index…
Russian influence operations are using AI to scale their propaganda efforts, according to a new analysis. The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has fundamentally changed the cost-benefit anal…
Google has expanded Gemini in Chrome with a new 'Select from screen' feature that lets desktop users draw a bounding box around any region of a web page—containing text, images, or both—and send it di…
Netlify is partnering with OpenAI to support the WebMCP Challenge, offering 3 million credits and a $5,000 prize pool for builders who create agent-native web apps or add WebMCP support to existing on…
Google Play announced enhanced safety measures to prevent generative AI apps from facilitating non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including multi-layered defenses, monetization blocks for violato…
PageLens, a new Chrome extension, uses Anthropic's Claude AI to summarize, explain, or flag important details in the current tab, and is strictly read-only, with no automation layer. Users add their o…