OpenAI’s Codex Chrome extension pushes the coding agent into signed-in browser work, making it more useful for real tasks while raising new questions about access, approvals, and agentic AI risk.

Google has shut down Project Mariner, the AI browser agent that navigated websites by processing screenshots in real time.

Firecrawl is becoming core infrastructure for AI agents, giving systems reliable access to the live web and turning open-source traction into category leadership.

Google officially shut down Project Mariner on May 4, 2026, ending a 17-month experiment in autonomous web browsing. While the standalone tool is gone, its technology is being integrated into Gemini ...

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Workplace equity gets a thumbs-up—but insufficient resources—from most businesses and organizations, researchers find. Image by iStock. The concept of workplace equity gets a thumbs-up from most ...

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