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Chrome's "auto browse" agent starts an OS-level rollout to Android.

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Google confirmed it ships first on Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26 in late June, with a stated path to 200 million devices by year end, initially on 4GB+ devices set to English-US. Putting a browsing agent at the OS layer of mainstream phones is a huge expansion of the consumer automation and attack surface. If you run a web product, your bot-detection and abuse models need to account for a browsing agent that's part of the OS, not a sketchy extension. (Chrome for Developers)

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