# AI news, Friday, 28 August 2026

Compiled by Richard Brooks's AI news desk. Canonical: https://richard-brooks.com/ai-news/2026-08-28/

## Anthropic makes Claude in Chrome generally available

Agents. Browser agents can act with a safety classifier, and Cowork gains a built-in desktop browser separate from the user's tabs.

Source: Anthropic, https://claude.com/blog/claude-in-chrome-generally-available

## Google ships Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for 85-plus languages

Language. Streaming and batch speech-to-text with multi-speaker attribution for voice agents, captioning and dictation.

Source: Google, https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5-transcribe/

## OpenAI publishes Hugging Face agent escape incident report

Security. Real constraint on how aggressively teams run agent evals with tools and network access, with METR and Redwood review the same day.

Source: OpenAI, https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/

## xAI puts Grok 4.6 on Microsoft Foundry

Models. Enterprise path to the long-context Grok model already available in Cursor and the xAI API.

Source: xAI, https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6-microsoft-foundry