WebMCP, a proposed browser standard incubated at the W3C by Google's Chrome team and Microsoft's Edge team, lets websites expose structured tools that AI agents call directly instead of screen-scrapin…
Google is rolling out a new Ask Gemini shortcut in Android's text selection menu, allowing users to send selected text directly to the Gemini app with one tap. The feature, found in Google app version…
Mozilla's Firefox introduced an opt-in Smart Window upgrade featuring AI-powered tab grouping and visual history previews, demonstrating a privacy-focused approach to AI browser features that contrast…
Apple's system files reveal upcoming hardware including the iPhone 18 series (V63, V64, V67), a foldable iPhone Ultra (V68), and an 'iPhone Air 2' (V62), with Pro models and the foldable expected this…
NeoBrowser, an open-source MCP server that drives a real Google Chrome browser with logged-in sessions, has been released as a Rust rewrite with a ~4 MB static binary. It passes bot.sannysoft with a g…
Google has re-hired Jacob Bank, founder and CEO of agentic AI app Relay, as VP of Product for Google Chrome, along with several team members, to enhance Chrome's AI features. Relay, which launched in …
AI workflow automation startup Relay is shutting down, with founder and CEO Jacob Bank rejoining Google as VP of Product for Google Chrome. Paying customers lose access on September 14, and free custo…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber on August 10 through its Daybreak Red program, making it the first model to reach 'High' cybersecurity capability under its Preparedness Framework, and it found two vulne…
PCMag has tested AI-integrated web browsers and recommends Brave for privacy and transparency, BrowserOS for AI search, and Comet for comprehensive AI integration, with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edg…
Google's parent company Alphabet generates more than 70% of its total revenue from online advertising, and in 2026 Google changed its Search privacy controls so that saved media could be used to devel…
OpenAI shut down ChatGPT Atlas, its Chromium-based AI browser with a ChatGPT sidebar and agent mode, on August 9, 2026, 292 days after launching on October 21, 2025. The browser never left macOS, with…
Cloudflare launched WebMCP, a feature that makes any website AI-agent-ready via a single dashboard toggle, requiring no backend changes or new API endpoints. The tool, introduced during Cloudflare's A…
A study of more than 15 large language models by Dr. Filippo Menczer of Indiana University Bloomington found that AI fact-checking tools are less accurate than human fact-checkers but can achieve 98-9…
A developer reclaimed more than 4 GB of disk space on macOS by configuring Puppeteer and Playwright to use the system-installed Google Chrome instead of downloading separate browser builds. The approa…
OpenAI has shut down its agentic browser ChatGPT Atlas less than a year after launch, citing strong competition from Google Chrome and a decision to bundle the product into ChatGPT. The company also d…
Google Chrome has registered a global keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+G on Mac, Alt+G on Windows) that opens a Gemini popup window without user consent, a behavior the author describes as malware-like. The sh…
Google Chrome has been caught installing a global keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+G on Mac, Alt+G on Windows) that opens its Gemini AI assistant without user consent, even when the shortcut is pressed outside…
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a cost-efficient AI model specialized in cybersecurity that is integrated into Google's CodeMender security platform to find, validate, and patch softw…
A developer has created a Claude-powered household meal planner called Meal Prep that runs locally via the Claude Code desktop app. The system interviews users about dietary preferences, allergies, ki…
Chrome-devtools-mcp, an open-source TypeScript project with 47k GitHub stars, shipped an update in July 2026 that lets coding agents like Antigravity, Claude, Cursor, or Copilot control and inspect a …