#google-chrome

#google-chrome

The company announced on Thursday that it plans to supercharge its Chrome browser with a raft of new AI features, including AI agents that will complete tasks for you, as it transitions one of its key products for the AI era. Google is also putting AI Mode - its more conversational take on traditional Google Search - right into the address bar via something it's calling the "omnibox." This will allow users to run searches in AI Mode without leaving the page they're on.

Google is adding multiple new AI features to Chrome, the most popular browser in the world. The most visible change is a new button in Chrome that launches the Gemini chatbot, but there are also new tools for searching, researching, and answering questions with AI. Google has additional cursor-controlling "agentic" tools in the pipeline for Chrome as well.

A federal judge had already ruled that Alphabet holds a monopoly in internet search. The tech leader was waiting for its sentence. Regulators wanted to break up the monopoly by forcing Alphabet to divest Google Chrome, the world's most popular browser. That would have meant a major hit to the tech company's most important source of revenue, advertising, since Alphabet uses the browser to maintain its dominance in search (it is the default engine on Chrome), collect data to help guide targeted ad campaigns, and more.

Google Chrome is certainly fast, free, and easy to use, which makes it one of the best browsers, not to mention one of the most popular. However, we all know that Google isn't the most privacy-conscious company, at least when it comes to collecting your data for its own purposes. Sure, Chrome has built-in safeguards against malicious actors, but the browser also ties directly into Google's advertising business, collecting lots of data.

OpenAI is planning to release an AI-powered web browser to challenge Google Chrome, reportedly aiming for a launch in the coming weeks.

Google has pushed an emergency update to Chrome after identifying CVE-2025-6554, an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine.

Even as they've gotten better, faster, and more durable, devices from Google, Samsung, and others have just had too many compromises.

Google has released an emergency update for the Chrome browser to fix a serious security vulnerability that allowed an account takeover.

The premise of the AI recorder is compelling; it brings the idea of perfect memory that records everything, but is that truly beneficial?