Jacob Bank has returned to Google, this time as VP of Product for Chrome, bringing with him the team behind Relay — an AI workflow startup that is shutting down after five years of building tools designed to let people delegate tasks without surrendering their own agency. The move is not a traditional acquisition but a gathering of human talent into one of the most widely distributed platforms on earth, a quiet signal that the browser itself may be becoming the next frontier for AI automation. In the longer arc of technology, it is a familiar story: the ambitious small vessel absorbed into the