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		StilesCrisis 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending d... "Chrome likes to make up new standards" I can think of just one, USB. Chrome was built on the premise that web standards matter. Remember IE 6?

pamcake 16 days ago [–]

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/04/30/mozilla-push...

Remember AMP?

StilesCrisis 16 days ago | [–]

AMP wasn't part of Chrome.

The Prompt API is part of a real W3C standard: https://www.w3.org/2025/03/webmachinelearning-charter.html

It's not even chaired by Google. It's Intel, believe it or not.

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