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…
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…
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…
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…
Robin, a browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Firefox, lets users automate and customize web pages by converting plain English instructions into JavaScript that runs directly in the page, wi…
Histiq, a new AI browser history search extension for Chrome and Edge, indexes web pages and PDFs locally to enable semantic search, with a 14-day free trial starting at $4.17 per month. The extension…
Security researcher Ori Nimron has released functional exploit code for CVE-2026-40369, a Windows kernel vulnerability patched by Microsoft in May 2026, three months after the patch. The deterministic…
TIME magazine is reportedly serving ads that only AI bots can see, a practice that creates two versions of web pages—one for humans and one for AI crawlers. The trend, highlighted alongside Microsoft'…
A developer built OTI, an open-source one-time secret sharing app using AdonisJS 6, TypeScript, MySQL, Redis, Edge, and Vite. The app encrypts messages in the browser, stores only encrypted data on th…
Microsoft Corp. said on August 3 that its vulnerability rewards programs awarded more than $20 million to 562 security researchers from 64 countries during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, both pr…
Developer Vincent Ping has released ClaudeFS, a free browser extension for Chrome and Edge that lets users connect a local folder to claude.ai, enabling Claude to read, search, and edit files directly…
A new tool called Virtual Time Engine lets users record HTML, CSS, and JS animations as 60fps MP4 or WebM videos entirely client-side using the WebCodecs API, with no uploads, sign-ups, or watermarks.…
Stable Diffusion can now run directly inside a browser tab using WebNN and ONNX Runtime Web, according to a guide from Scribbler. The stack enables local, private image generation without cloud APIs o…
WebMCP is emerging as a standard for AI-driven browsing, allowing websites to register typed JavaScript functions that AI agents can call directly. As of July 2026, Chrome origin trials are live, Edge…
WebMCP, a W3C Community Group draft co-edited by Google and Microsoft engineers, has near-zero deployment on real websites and no mainstream AI agents consuming its tools as of July 2026, despite a li…
A Hacker News user reports that the 1Password browser extension for Edge and Chrome is outputting debug messages in the browser console, raising concerns about the use of AI in security-focused softwa…
Blur & Unblur AI is a browser-based tool that detects faces in photos and applies blur only to selected face masks, running entirely locally without uploading images to a server. The tool supports JPG…
Microsoft is reigniting the browser wars by turning its Edge browser into an AI-powered operating surface for intelligence, collapsing search, navigation, task execution, and identity into a single in…
Independent researchers Dr. Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles published Over The Edge 2.0, finding that Microsoft still uses harmful design patterns in Windows, Edge, and Bing to coerce users into usi…
Reins, an open-source tool from Karnstack, lets coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor control a user's real logged-in browser via a CLI, daemon, and Chrome extension, with no cloud component and f…