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Chrome starts shopping on its own

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Google integrated Gemini 3 into Chrome for auto-browse shopping and made it the default for AI Overviews, adding Agentic Vision that turns image processing into active investigation.

Reporting date: 2026-01-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to January 29, 2026

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Google

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eBay moves to ban unsupervised agent purchases

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Welcome to January 29, 2026

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Chrome starts shopping on its own
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Reporting date: 2026-01-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-29-gemini-auto-browse-in-chrome
Claim: Google integrated Gemini 3 into Chrome for auto-browse shopping and made it the default for AI Overviews, adding Agentic Vision that turns image processing into active investigation.
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- Welcome to January 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-29-2026
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