Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol

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Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft are developing PACT, a privacy-first protocol to verify web traffic legitimacy without tracking users.

The duality of language models in the browser - daverupert.com
The author expresses cautious optimism about small language models in browsers, highlighting privacy and low cost while noting concerns about calcification and standardization.
also on Mozilla, #browser-engineering, #privacy, Google, #ai
Google’s Prompt API
Google's Prompt API ships as a Chrome-only web standard requiring users to accept Google's use policy and download Gemini Nano without permission, drawing opposition from Mozilla and WebKit.
also on Mozilla, #browser-engineering, #privacy, Google
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend - The Pragmatic Engineer
At Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce, developers are deliberately burning AI tokens to inflate usage metrics, causing massive waste and prompting Meta to remove its internal leaderboard.
also on Shopify, Microsoft, #ai
Under the Hood: Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) - Google Developers Blog
Google and partners launched the Universal Commerce Protocol, an open-source standard for agentic commerce that standardizes secure, seamless shopping across AI surfaces.
also on Shopify, Google, #security
The State of WebMCP: July 2026
WebMCP is a live Chrome origin trial standard with near‑zero adoption and no AI agent support yet, but site owners can prepare by adding tools and monitoring Lighthouse audits.
also on Microsoft, #browser-engineering, Google