Google is empowering its Chrome browser with the quality to change pictures and introducing a broadside sheet for a virtual adjunct to assistance with online tasks arsenic portion of its propulsion to turbocharge its of integer services with much artificial quality techn...
ByMICHAEL LIEDTKE AP exertion writer
January 28, 2026, 1:01 PM
Google is empowering its Chrome browser with the quality to change imagery and a virtual adjunct to assistance with online tasks arsenic portion of its propulsion to turbocharge its integer services with much artificial quality technology.
The features rolling retired see making Google's AI representation generator and editing tool, Nano Banana, disposable to Chrome's logged-in users connected desktop computers successful the United States. The expanded entree to Nano Banana done the starring web browser whitethorn further blur the lines betwixt real-life pictures and fabricated images.
The browser's enlargement volition besides connection an enactment for Chrome's U.S. users to unfastened a broadside sheet truthful an AI-powered adjunct tin assistance with an assortment of chores portion a idiosyncratic remains engaged with different online tasks.
Subscribers to Google's AI Pro and Ultra services volition besides beryllium capable to activate an “auto browse” relation that volition log into websites, store for merchandise connected bid and hole posts connected societal media. Users volition inactive person to manually implicit purchases from the buying carts prepared by AI and o.k. drafted societal media posts.
The AI successful Chrome relies connected the Gemini 3 exemplary that Google released precocious past twelvemonth and is present being baked into galore of the services that helped its firm parent, Alphabet, precocious surpass a marketplace worth of $4 trillion.
Earlier this month, Google tapped into Gemini to bring much AI features to Gmail arsenic portion of an effort to marque that work behave much similar a idiosyncratic adjunct and past funneled much of the exertion into its hunt engine. successful hopes of providing much applicable answers tailored to users' idiosyncratic tastes and habits.
The upgrades to Google's hunt motor plug into the company's “Personal Intelligence” exertion that leverages AI to larn much astir people's lives. Google is promising to rotation retired a Personal Intelligence enactment successful Chrome astatine immoderate constituent aboriginal this year.
Chrome's AI makeover is rolling retired conscionable a fewer months aft a national justice rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's propulsion to unit Google to merchantability the browser arsenic portion of the punishment for moving an amerciable monopoly successful search. The justice rebuffed the projected breakup partially due to the fact that helium believes AI already is reshaping the competitory scenery arsenic smaller rivals specified arsenic OpenAI and Perplexity deploy the exertion successful chatbots and their ain web browsers.
Before releasing its AI browser Atlas past October, OpenAI had expressed involvement successful buying Chrome if the breakup had been ordered. Perplexity, which offers an AI browser called Comet, adjacent submitted a $34.5 cardinal bid for Chrome earlier the justice opted against a merchantability mandate.
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