Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Dev 158 (158.0.8106.0) for Android. It’s now available on Google Play.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

NVIDIA officially entered the Windows PC race this week, and its arrival brings a formidable new competitor to the premium AI PC market.

IBM’s September 2026 EMEA survey found that 8 in 10 executives reported an AI-related incident reaching their board or C-suite in the past year, highlighting the growing need for AI risk management and governance.

Widgets, widgets, widgets. Has there ever been an Android feature so full of promise that went unloved by Google for so very long? Okay, so maybe there has been — erm, lots of times, actually.

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 157 to the Beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 157.0.8103.

Launcher + L locks a Chromebook screen so it ignores keys and taps until you sign back in. Here’s how to use it, how to fake a frozen screen, and what to do when a Chromebook freezes by itself.

   Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 155 (155.0.8059.84) for Android. It’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days. This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 157 (157.0.8103.5) for Android. It’s now available on Google Play.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT’s Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open.

As we have continued living with and working from Googlebooks over the past two weeks, the platform has delivered some genuinely fantastic surprises.

The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 152.0.7977.169 for Windows and Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Security FixesNote: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix.

The Stable channel has been updated to 155.0.8059.84/.85 for Windows and Mac and 155.0.8059.84 to Linux which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the LogInterested in switching release channels? Find out how here.

Agents represent a fundamental shift in cloud operations. They can act on behalf of users or autonomously, make non-deterministic decisions, and request data across projects at unprecedented speed and scale. Because agents are a distinct category of non-human identity (NHI), they require unique secure-by-default guardrails.

Editor’s note: Generative AI startups are moving rapidly beyond static clip generation to build interactive, real-time worlds.

Small teams, short runway, and constant pressure to ship faster — it’s the reality we see every day among the founders we work with at Google for Startups.

The open-source Temporal execution platform is rapidly becoming a foundational layer of modern software infrastructure — especially for orchestration in distributed systems and AI agent workloads. However, deploying and scaling workers in Temporal comes with unique challenges.

Up to this point, the narrative surrounding Qualcomm-powered Googlebooks has been dominated by ultra-premium silicon.

Comet, Perplexity’s agentic browser, captured just 9.4% of AI-agent traffic tracked by HUMAN Security in September 2026, ending its five-month lead from April through August.

An experimental install suggests existing Chromebooks may handle Google’s new OS just fine.

Unpinning the Gemini button in Chrome hides it, but the keyboard shortcut still works. Here’s how to switch Gemini off properly, and how to block it on a shared Windows PC.

If you have ever tried using a single laptop for both your personal life and your day job, you know a lot about the friction of swapping between those accounts.

The Stable channel has been updated to 156.0.8078.35/.36 for Windows and Mac as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.You can find more details about early Stable releases here.

Ever since Google officially launched the new Googlebook platform, one of the biggest questions hanging in the air has been what this means for existing Chromebook hardware. While we wait for official transition paths for existing Chromebook hardware, the enthusiast community isn’t sitting on its hands.

Hello Everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 156 (156.0.8078.39) for Android to a small percentage of users. It’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days. You can find more details about early Stable releases here.This release includes stability and performance improvements.

One of the best parts of using ChromeOS over the years has been the ability to turn virtually any website into a standalone, windowed web app.

Xbow earned a $250K bug bounty and all the AI model got was a lousy t-shirt

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 157 (157.0.8103.1) for iOS; it’ll become available on App Store in the next few days.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2026. Today, Stephanie Kiel explains the latest on our approach to post-quantum cryptography, and shares a new tool to help CISOs and executives prepare their organizations for PQC.

Chrome keeps opening Bing instead of Google? Find the extension, policy or program behind it and switch your search engine back for good.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 156 (156.0.8078.39) for Android. It’s now available on Google Play.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

There’s growing talk of digital sovereignty as enterprises rethink past consolidation decisions made in the name of simplicity. Mozilla, developer of Firefox, argues that a “very specific, very important layer” has been mostly missing from that conversation: The browser.

   Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 155 (155.0.8059.79) for Android. It’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days. This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log.

The Beta channel is being updated to OS version 16836.15.0 (Browser version 156.0.8078.31) for most ChromeOS devices.

Google is rolling out a massive wave of updates to the Google Play Store today, and the headline feature completely changes how everyday users can build and run software on their devices.

 The Stable channel has been updated to 155.0.8059.79/.80 for Windows and Mac and 155.0.8059.79 to Linux which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.