Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2025. Today, Google Cloud’s Nick Godfrey, senior director, and Anton Chuvakin, security advisor, look back at the year that was.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog.

In the AI era, when one year can feel like 10, you’re forgiven for forgetting what happened last month, much less what happened all the way back in January. To jog your memory, we pulled the readership data for top product and company news of 2025.

If you bought a Pixel 10 back in October, you probably have a complicated relationship with it. The phone is fantastic—the cameras are unmatched, and the AI features are helpful—but if you try to play a graphics-heavy game, things get weird.

If you bought a Pixel 10 back in October, you probably have a complicated relationship with it. The phone is fantastic—the cameras are unmatched, and the AI features are helpful—but if you try to play a graphics-heavy game, things get weird.

In the latest episode of the Agent Factory, Mofi Rahman and I had the pleasure of hosting, Brandon Royal, the PM working on agentic workloads on GKE.

In the latest episode of the Agent Factory, Mofi Rahman and I had the pleasure of hosting, Brandon Royal, the PM working on agentic workloads on GKE.

The large amount of personal information that people freely share on social media platforms causes a major conflict between being connected and being at risk. Users often chat with individuals from other cultures, such as Ukrainian singles over 40, hoping to create meaningful relationships.

The large amount of personal information that people freely share on social media platforms causes a major conflict between being connected and being at risk. Users often chat with individuals from other cultures, such as Ukrainian singles over 40, hoping to create meaningful relationships.

Modern development teams work under constant pressure to ship features fast, keep systems stable, and reduce technical debt. In environments where even small mistakes can break integrations or slow down business operations, code review becomes one of the few reliable ways to maintain consistency and quality.

Modern development teams work under constant pressure to ship features fast, keep systems stable, and reduce technical debt. In environments where even small mistakes can break integrations or slow down business operations, code review becomes one of the few reliable ways to maintain consistency and quality.

Apple introduced the iPhone 17 Pro in September 2025 with a clear focus on performance. With upgraded hardware, a sharper display, and improved thermal control, it’s clearly aiming to meet the demands of mobile gamers.  But strong specs alone don’t guarantee a smooth gaming experience.

You’ve built a powerful AI agent. It works on your local machine, it’s intelligent, and it’s ready to meet the world. Now, how do you take this agent from a script on your laptop to a secure, scalable, and reliable application in production?

 The Stable channel has been updated to 143.0.7499.169/.170 for Windows/Mac  and 143.0.7499.169 for Linux, 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.

Today’s AI capabilities provide a great opportunity to enable natural language (NL) interactions with your enterprise data through applications using text and voice. In fact, in the world of agentic applications, natural language is rapidly becoming the interaction standard.

Google is continuing its steady march to make Android more capable on big screens. In the latest Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1, spotted by Android Authority, a cool new feature has appeared: the ability to cast content directly from an external display.

Google is continuing its steady march to make Android more capable on big screens. In the latest Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1, spotted by Android Authority, a cool new feature has appeared: the ability to cast content directly from an external display.

Enhance your development experience with the exciting updates in Chrome DevTools 142-144. This video demonstrates Code suggestions from Gemini, integrated into DevTools for a smoother and more efficient workflow.

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.

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.