agentic browsing

Microsoft and OpenAI have arrived at the same destination from different directions: browsers that not only search and display pages, but act on your behalf — filling forms, booking reservations, and remembering the context of previous browsing so you can resume projects with a single prompt...

The browser — long the stoic conduit between users and the web — has been remade as an assistant-first platform in 2025, with OpenAI, Microsoft, Perplexity, The Browser Company, Opera and Brave all racing to ship browsers or browser modes that embed large language models and agentic assistants...

Google’s Chrome appears to be moving beyond passive browsing toward an active, assistant-driven experience, after a Canary build surfaced a hidden “Contextual tasks” option that hints at deeper Gemini integration and the beginnings of what the industry calls agentic browsing. Early artifacts in...

Microsoft’s Edge is quietly evolving from a Chromium browser with an AI sidebar into a permissioned, agentic browsing surface—and recent test code and community reporting suggest the company is now experimenting with giving Copilot direct access to a user’s Edge profile so the assistant can act...

Perplexity has opened the door: its AI‑first browser, Comet, is now available for free to everyone on Windows and macOS, a major distribution shift that turns an expensive, invite‑only experiment into a mass‑market download while keeping premium automation and publisher‑access features behind...

Microsoft's direction is clear: there won't be a standalone "AI browser" from Redmond — instead, Copilot is being folded deeper into Microsoft Edge, turning the browser into an AI-first, agentic assistant that acts on context, orchestrates multi-step tasks, and tightly integrates with Microsoft...

Google has quietly — and decisively — converted Chrome from a passive window onto the web into an AI-powered browsing platform by embedding Gemini throughout the browser, adding a Gemini toolbar button, an AI Mode in the omnibox, and the groundwork for agentic automation that can act on users’...

Google has quietly turned the Chrome toolbar into a direct gateway for Gemini — rolling out what the company calls the “biggest upgrade in its history,” a sweeping set of AI features that embed Gemini natively into the browser, surface an AI Mode in the address bar, and promise future “agentic”...

Anthropic’s new Chrome extension quietly signals the next phase of enterprise AI: assistants that don’t just answer questions but act inside your browser — clicking, filling, and navigating like a human. The company has begun a controlled pilot of Claude for Chrome, inviting 1,000 paying...

Microsoft’s latest survey of Microsoft Edge users reads like a product roadmap with question marks — a quiet probe that, if the signals are read correctly, points to a future where Copilot in Edge moves from summarizer to doer. The questionnaire currently circulating among Edge users asks not...

Microsoft’s recent user survey — surfaced by reporting from Windows Latest — suggests the company is actively exploring ways to make Microsoft Edge’s Copilot mode behave more like Perplexity’s Comet: not just a summarizer but an agentic browser that can act across tabs and automate multi-step...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping our expectations of the web, but browsers themselves have long felt like passive portals—waiting for us to search, click, and scroll. That’s about to change, if Opera’s bold vision for its new Neon browser comes to fruition. Rather than simply...