Anthropic is now offering a research preview of Claude for Chrome, a browser extension that enables the firm's machine learning model to automate web browsing.
Available initially to only 1,000 subscribers paying $100 or $200 per month for a Claude Max subscription, it arrives with a set of safety warnings fit for juggling rabid ferrets.
Browser extensions on their own represent a significant security and privacy risk because they have access to so much sensitive information and often insist on overly broad permissions. Starting back in 2018 , Google began a seven-year odyssey to overhaul Chrome's extension architecture because browser extensions were so easy to abuse.
Now Anthropic has complicated web security further by giving a battalion of Max-tier customers the ability to turn thei