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April 16, 2026

How an Autonomous Agent Beat a 2200-Rated Chess Bot: Without a Single Screenshot

An autonomous AI agent named Steffi played 35 moves against a Master-level bot on chess.com and won by checkmate, without taking a single screenshot, calling a vision model, or running any OCR. Here's how Owl Browser's browser_get_page_map made it possible.

March 23, 2026

Owl Browser 1.1.0: We're Building CEF from Chromium Source Now

Owl Browser 1.1.0 takes our stealth and performance to the next level. We now build CEF directly from Chromium source, with Owl-specific patches baked into the engine.

March 2, 2026

Owl Browser 1.0.11: WebMCP Support for Web Pages

Owl Browser now supports WebMCP, the W3C draft standard that lets web pages declare callable tools for AI agents. Navigate to a page, discover its tools, call them directly. No DOM scraping required.

February 23, 2026

Owl Browser 1.0.10: Web Bot Auth and Signed Agent Support

Your AI agent can now be a verified bot. Owl Browser 1.0.10 ships native Web Bot Auth (RFC 9421) with Ed25519 request signing, Cloudflare Signed Agent registration, and automatic User-Agent switching.

February 16, 2026

Introducing the Page Map Tool for Faster AI Agent Navigation

Our new browser_get_page_map tool radically improves how text-based LLMs browse the internet by extracting an interactive map of the DOM, skipping the noise.