Weekly Issue: 2025-51

For years, one of the biggest headaches in Google Meet was the weirdly restrictive audio sharing. If you wanted your audience to hear a video or a sound clip, you had to present a specific Chrome tab.

If you’ve been following the rise of “vibe-coding”—using natural language to build functional apps without writing a single line of code—then you’ve probably heard of Opal. It’s been a standalone experiment from Google Labs for a while, but now Google is bringing that power directly into the Gemini web app.

If you’ve been following the rise of “vibe-coding”—using natural language to build functional apps without writing a single line of code—then you’ve probably heard of Opal. It’s been a standalone experiment from Google Labs for a while, but now Google is bringing that power directly into the Gemini web app.

If you’ve been using AI Mode in Google Search recently, things are about to get a lot faster and a whole lot smarter. Google has officially announced that its latest model, Gemini 3 Flash, is now rolling out globally as the default engine for AI Mode.

Mozilla’s DeepSpeech recorded 26,700+ GitHub stars before its official archival on June 19, 2025, marking the end of one of the most influential open-source speech recognition projects. The TensorFlow-based engine achieved a 7.06% Word Error Rate on LibriSpeech clean test corpus while processing audio 30% faster than competing transformer models.

Google’s Med-PaLM 2 achieved 86.5% accuracy on USMLE-style medical examinations in 2023, surpassing the expert threshold and establishing new benchmarks for clinical AI systems. Physicians preferred Med-PaLM 2 responses over human-generated answers across eight of nine evaluation axes, with 92.6% of outputs aligning with scientific consensus.

Your smartphone’s home screen is the heart and soul of your mobile tech experience — the launching pad for nearly everything you do on your device.

Modern Chromebooks are versatile devices for users who type in diverse languages daily. Ongoing ChromeOS updates give access to specific tools beyond just simple keyboard preference switching. These excellent features include useful input method settings, quick keyboard shortcuts, and effective voice typing technology.

IT leaders are setting their operations strategies for 2026 with an eye toward agility, flexibility, and tangible business results.

The ChromeOS Stable channel is being updated to OS version 16463.51.0 (Browser version 143.0.7499.150) for most ChromeOS devices.

Discover custom functions, one of Una’s favorite features from CSS Wrapped 2025. Functions make it alot easier to architect your CSS in a clean and expressive way. Join Una as she shares an example of a CSS custom function for a conditionally rounded border radius.

Just last month, Google launched the Gemini 3 family with the powerful “Pro” and “Deep Think” models. Today, they are expanding the lineup with a model that might actually be the most important one for everyday users: Gemini 3 Flash.

The complexity of the infrastructure behind AI training and high performance computing (HPC) workloads can really slow teams down.

The race to build a truly useful AI “agent” is heating up, and Google has decided to start leveraging one of their biggest advantages: your data.

We’re excited by how rapidly we can now act on feedback. Just weeks after discussing a new runtime.getVersion() API, an implementation was already live in Chrome Canary. Learn more by visiting the related video ”Can you make a cross-browser Chrome Extension?”. Join the WebExtensions community group → goo.

For most organizations, the question is no longer if they will use AI, but how to scale it from a promising prototype into a production-grade service that drives business outcomes.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 144 (144.0.7559.31) 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 ChromeOS Beta channel is being updated to OS version 16503.18.0 (Browser version 144.0.7559.27) for most ChromeOS devices.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 144 (144.0.7559.31) 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.

When Google announced “Gemini in Chrome” on the way for Workspace users back in November, it was a huge deal for the platform. It promised to finally bring Chromebooks to feature parity with Mac and Windows, delivering a deeply integrated, enterprise-grade AI assistant right in the browser.

The Beta channel has been updated to 144.0.7559.31 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.

AudioLM generated speech that achieved only 51.2% human distinguishability in 2024, meaning listeners correctly identified synthetic audio at rates no better than random chance. Google Research developed this framework with 0.3 billion parameters across three hierarchical processing stages, trained on 40,000 hours of piano music alongside extensive speech datasets.

PubMedBERT recorded 2.5 million monthly downloads across its model variants in 2025, establishing dominance in biomedical natural language processing. Developed by Microsoft Research and trained on 14 million PubMed abstracts, the model outperforms general-domain alternatives by 4.7 points on the BLURB benchmark. The biomedical NLP market reached $8.

I’m always on the lookout for interesting organizational upgrades. (That’s just how cool of a fella I am, y’see.) And when it comes to jotting down notes and reminders, there’s always room for a new and improved — or sometimes even just deliberately different — approach.

Google is testing a new AI-powered productivity agent that operates through the inbox, signaling a potential shift in how enterprise workers may interact with calendars, documents, and daily tasks.

Google is testing a new AI-powered productivity agent that operates through the inbox, signaling a potential shift in how enterprise workers may interact with calendars, documents, and daily tasks.

Developing a good promo script for a brand, product or service may be time consuming and labor intensive. Some individuals have a hard time trying to write scripts that are professional and interesting. This is made easier on CapCut PC with AI writers.

Vowing to make it the “world’s most trusted software company,” Mozilla’s board of directors announced Tuesday it was appointing Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as the new CEO, whose mandate will be to achieve that lofty goal.

Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 143 (143.0.7499.146) 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.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Stable 143 (143.0.7499.151) for iOS; it’ll become available on App Store in the next few hours.This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log.

More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions Ad blockers and VPNs are supposed to protect your privacy, but four popular browser extensions have been doing just the opposite.

More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions Ad blockers and VPNs are supposed to protect your privacy, but four popular browser extensions have been doing just the opposite.

 The Stable channel has been updated to 143.0.7499.146/.147 for Windows/Mac  and 143.0.7499.146 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the Log.

 The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 142.0.7499.243 for Windows and Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here.

Say goodbye to writing onclick handlers just to open a dialog. With Chrome 135, buttons can now control other elements purely with HTML. Bramus share’s one of his top feature picks from CSS Wrapped 2025. See all of the UI features that Chrome shipped this year → https://goo.