Google is reorganizing the team behind Project Mariner, its experimental browser‑automation AI, as the company integrates the technology into broader agent products like Gemini Agent. The move reflects a wider industry pivot toward more efficient terminal‑based agents such as OpenClaw and Claude Code, and toward coding agents that can manipulate software and files. While early browser agents from Google, OpenAI and Perplexity struggled to gain mass adoption, newer models from startups like Standard Intelligence promise higher efficiency. Executives from Google, Nvidia, and AI startups comment on the evolving role of computer‑use agents in consumer applications. Read more →