Weekly Issue: 2025-15

Hello from Google Cloud Next 25 in Las Vegas! This year, it’s all about how AI can reimagine work and improve our lives — even bringing Hollywood classics like The Wizard of Oz to life on one of the biggest screens in the world.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 136 (136.0.7103.24) 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.

The Beta channel has been updated to 136.0.7103.25 for Windows, Mac and Linux.A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Right on the heels of the recent April 2025 OTA update and the introduction of Scam Detection features, Google is now rolling out the promised Loss of Pulse Detection to users in the United States.

Google Docs is adding a significant new capability that could change how many users interact with their documents: Audio Overviews. Soon, you’ll be able to have your documents read aloud directly within the editor, offering a powerful new way to proofread, absorb information, and refine your writing.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 136 (136.0.7103.24) 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.

A small feature I’ve been wanting specifically for my Chromebook may finally be arriving in the form of a truncated-yet-functional Google Discover feed on the main google.com landing page.

We just got our hands on the brand new Google Pixel 9a here in the office, and alongside its Pro siblings – the Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL, we’re excited to dive into Google’s latest venture into the competitive mid-range market.

Millions of developers use Firebase to engage their users, powering over 70 billion instances of apps every day, everywhere — from mobile devices and web browsers, to embedded platforms and agentic experiences.

Today’s innovation isn’t born in a lab or at a drafting board; it’s built on the bedrock of AI infrastructure.

Today at Google Cloud Next, we are announcing Google Unified Security, new security agents, and innovations across our security portfolio designed to deliver stronger security outcomes and enable every organization to make Google a part of their security team.

In the last 12 months, we’ve made incredible enhancements to our Compute Engine platform. This is driven most notably by new fourth-generation compute instances and Hyperdisk block storage as well as major customer experience enhancements.

In the last 12 months, we’ve made incredible enhancements to our Compute Engine platform. This is driven most notably by new fourth-generation compute instances and Hyperdisk block storage as well as major customer experience enhancements.

Today at Google Cloud Next, we’re thrilled to announce Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, built from the ground up by Google Cloud. It provides developers with an additional choice for their demanding document database workloads. MongoDB compatibility has been a highly-requested capability from Firestore’s existing community of over 600,000 active developers.

Today’s fast-paced environment demands more than just data access; it requires a real-time data activation flywheel. A new reality is emerging where AI, infused directly into the data landscape, works hand-in-hand with intelligent agents.

The AI era is here, fundamentally reshaping industries and demanding unprecedented network capabilities for training, inference and serving AI models. To power this transformation, organizations need global networking solutions that can handle massive capacity, seamless connectivity, and provide robust security.

Every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems – multiple AI agents working together – even when built on different frameworks or providers. Agents are intelligent systems that can act on your behalf using reasoning, planning, and memory capabilities.

Like many of you reading this, I fancy myself a builder. I got my first taste of making a computer do something based on code I wrote into a TI-99  console when I was 8 years old and was hooked.

AI agents are a major leap from traditional automation or chatbots. They can execute complex workflows, from planning and research, to generating and testing novel ideas.

For over 25 years, Google has pushed the boundaries of the network, with innovations that connect billions of users around the world to essential services like Gmail, YouTube, and Search. At the foundation lies Google’s vast backbone network.

Engineering teams can now build and scale AI applications more simply and with dramatically improved performance, thanks to a new partnership between Google Cloud and Anyscale.

Generative AI continues to capture our imagination and promises to transform every industry. Its transformative potential hinges on integrating powerful models like Gemini, with the most contextually-relevant enterprise data.

Enterprise customers are coming to Google Cloud to transform their businesses with AI, and many are turning to our seasoned experts at Google Cloud Consulting to help implement these innovations.

Today we’re unveiling new AI capabilities to help cloud developers and operators at every step of the application lifecycle. We are doing this by: Putting applications at the center of your cloud experience, abstracting away the infrastructure complexities of the traditional cloud model.

We recently announced Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent AI model yet. Gemini 2.5 models are now thinking models, capable of reasoning before responding, resulting in dramatically improved performance. This transparent step-by-step reasoning is crucial for enterprise trust and compliance. Our first model in this family, Gemini 2.

Google Chrome offers thousands of extensions designed to enhance your browsing experience. These small software add-ons introduce new features or optimize existing ones, and they’re free to download from the Chrome Web Store.

The Windows Start menu isn’t the best search tool when it comes to professional productivity. Sure, it’s convenient — it’s better than clicking your way through the entire menu to find what you need. But more often than not, it mostly just gets in your way.

Let’s be real: AI is changing the game in SEO. Algorithms are getting smarter. Content tools are getting slicker. And everywhere you turn, someone’s talking about how artificial intelligence is taking over search. But here’s the thing nobody wants to admit: backlinks still matter. Big time.

The evolving story of artificial intelligence demonstrates how artificial systems achieve outstanding results against human intellect at its deepest level. The evolution of machines detects human cognitive abilities while experts wonder which mental capacities remain exclusively human and outside the range of artificial devices.

To ensure a high level of security and privacy on the Internet, many users today are actively using such a solution as mobile proxies.

 The Dev channel is being updated to OS version 16238.12.0 (Browser version 136.0.7103.22) for most ChromeOS devices.

Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 135 (135.0.7049.79) 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. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

ChromeOS Long Term Support Candidate has been promoted to ChromeOS LTS 132 and is rolling out to most ChromeOS devices. The current version is 132.0.6834.214 (Platform Version: 16093.96.0).

The American workforce is undergoing a shift, with major companies like Amazon, Apple, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Tesla enforcing return-to-office (RTO) mandates, leading to fewer remote work opportunities for employees.

The Stable channel has been updated to 135.0.7049.84/.85 for Windows, Mac and 135.0.7049.84 for Linux which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the Log.