Microsoft’s AutoJack research shows how a malicious webpage rendered by an AI browsing agent can reach local MCP services and execute arbitrary processes on the underlying system. Microsoft is warning ...

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit ...

Cloudflare Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Matthew Prince says that artificial intelligence agents now drive the bulk of the internet’s traffic, having surpassed human web activity for the first ...

The service could make it simpler and cheaper to develop grounded applications by reducing the need for custom web-search infrastructure, analysts say. For the past two years, enterprises have focused ...

Web IQ is a set of grounding APIs that let AI systems pull information from Bing's search index. Microsoft says the system returns passages rather than full pages, reducing the amount of context AI ...

Building a structured dataset from the web is still a pipeline problem. You identify a data source, write or configure a scraper, design a schema, handle deduplication, schedule refreshes, and fix ...

Microsoft Research has released the Webwright framework, a Playwright based web-agent system that works from code and files in a terminal workspace rather than a browser session. Web agents are AI ...

Most web agents today drive a browser one action at a time. The model receives the current page state — as a screenshot or DOM text — and predicts the next click, keypress, or scroll. This action-at-a ...

Google has shut down Project Mariner, the autonomous web browsing agent it debuted at I/O last year. The tool, which could navigate Chrome, fill out forms, search listings, and book travel by taking ...

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 ...

Instead of solving web tasks by predicting where to click one at a time, we only give the model a terminal where it has the full freedom to spawn browser sessions, and to explore websites through ...