Google Chrome is testing **WebMCP**, a new system to help AI agents interact with websites more efficiently. Currently, AI struggles with websites, often relying on slow and unreliable methods. WebMCP lets websites offer AI tools directly through a browser API, potentially lowering costs and speeding up development. It works alongside existing AI protocols like Anthropic’s MCP and focuses on improving how AI assists *with* human web use, not replacing backend systems. Essentially, it's aiming to be a standard way for AI to "talk" to websites.
Headless Chromium allows running Chromium in a headless/server environment. Expected use cases include loading web pages, extracting metadata (e.g., the DOM) and generating bitmaps from page contents -- using all the modern web platform features provided by Chromium and Blink.
