npx @buildinternet/releases get googleRecently shipped 63-language real-time speech translation in Meet, a single customize hub for Gemini, and immersive explorations for students.
Meet translation dropped language pairing. Powered by Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, Meet detects the spoken language automatically and translates into each listener's preferred language across 63 languages, even when speakers switch mid-call. Web and mobile get it; Meet hardware listens. Calls also moved to post-quantum encryption on web and room hardware. The Meet Media API is deprecated, with endpoints turned down January 15, 2027; the Meet REST API and Add-ons SDK stay supported.
Gemini got one place to customize it. A hub collects skills and 40+ connected apps, with permissions auditable or revocable. Skills roll out to Workspace and will replace Gems. Immersive explorations add layered, interactive scenes for students, and @Gemini Notebook pulls notebooks into a chat.
Workspace assistants went mobile and conversational. Gmail Live answers spoken questions about the inbox on Android and iOS for paid Workspace users, with source cards each turn. Gemini in Sheets reached iOS, and Sheets now runs natural-language questions against the full BigQuery dataset. Meeting recaps post summaries, decisions, and owned action items in Chat; pivot tables gained a compact layout that survives Excel round-trips.
Comments became programmable; calendars follow their owner. Comments and suggested edits work across the Docs, Sheets, and Slides APIs, and Markdown previews and edits natively in Drive and Docs. Secondary calendars are deleted with their owner's account — transfer ownership first. From November 11, Workspace MCP servers reject OAuth clients not marked for AI agents.
Gemini 4 Argon and Nano Banana 2.1 are GA. Argon targets complex coding, agentic, math, and science work; Nano Banana 2.1 improves text rendering and adds panoramic ratios to 8:1. gemini-3.1-flash-image is deprecated with no shutdown date. New paid Generate Content API projects now store requests by default (store=true); SDKs added Live API in-session context updates.
Chrome 156 shipped 52 security fixes. The desktop build also reached Android and ChromeOS, with 157 arriving on iOS and in early stable.
Chrome 157 to the stable channel includes 213 security fixes, among them seven critical vulnerabilities in Dawn, ANGLE, and WebGL. The release rolls out to Windows, Mac, and Linux over the coming days.
Chrome Stable 157 for iOS rolls out to the App Store with stability and performance improvements.
Chrome's Extended Stable channel is updated to 156.0.8078.88 for Windows and Mac, rolling out over the coming days and weeks. Security changes for the build have not yet been published.
Admins can set a short custom message, with an optional link to a policy page, that appears in the Green Room before users join a Meet call. The notice can be shown always or only when a meeting is being recorded, transcribed, or has Gemini notes, and the feature is off by default under Meet Safety Settings.
Google Chat messages created asynchronously with markupSyntax set to MARKUP_SYNTAX_MARKDOWN can now include inline citations and footer sources. The Calendar API also adds a workingHours property on the Calendars resource to read and update a user's working hours on their primary calendar.
Users can upload an image from their computer, Drive, or Photos to create a custom avatar in Google Vids, in addition to building one from scratch, then refine it in Vids to clean up backgrounds, lighting, or add decorations. Custom avatars are saved to the project for consistent reuse within a video, with no admin control and Rapid Release rollout started October 30, 2026.
Gemini in Google Slides can now edit multiple slides or an entire presentation at once from a single prompt in the side panel, and Fill with Gemini in Sheets provides cell-level citations for web sources and handles larger requests. The recap also adds a compact form layout for pivot tables, file creation and editing inside the Gemini app, and an immersive explorations library in the Gemini student hub.
Gemini in Google Slides can now edit multiple slides or a full presentation from a single side-panel prompt, refreshing fonts, backgrounds, and color schemes across a deck, updating content grounded in Google Drive files, merging or adding slides, and applying edits directly to native slides with undo and version history support. Available in English only at launch, with extended rollout starting October 29, 2026.
The ChromeOS Dev channel is being updated to OS version 16868.5.0 (Browser version 158.0.8127.5) for most ChromeOS devices.
The Dev channel has been updated to 159.0.8130.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Chrome Dev 159 (159.0.8130.0) for Android is available on Google Play, spanning Chromium changes from 158.0.8117.0 to 159.0.8130.0. Feature details are pointed to the Chromium blog and web platform updates to chromestatus for milestone 159.
The Computer Use tool is generally available across the Interactions and GenerateContent APIs.
Chrome 156 (156.0.8078.79) for Android is rolling out on Google Play over the next few days with stability and performance improvements. The release carries the same security fixes as the corresponding desktop release (156.0.8078.79/.80).
Stable channel updates to 156.0.8078.79/.80 for Windows and Mac and 156.0.8078.79 for Linux, fixing 21 security issues led by CVE-2026-76024, a critical memory corruption in MediaStream. Nineteen high-severity flaws are also patched, spanning use-after-free in FileSystem, Input, Frames, Quota, Blink and Skia, plus memory corruption in Autofill, CacheStorage, Network, GarbageCollection, Dawn and DOM.
Users can now generate, preview, and edit files within Gemini app chats, expanding to full screen for direct edits or asking Gemini to refine them. PDF preview and editing work on web and mobile, while documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, Markdown, TXT, and code are supported on the web only; slide decks can open in Google Slides or export to PPTX/PDF.
Chrome Beta 158 (158.0.8127.4) for iOS is released and will become available on the App Store in the next few days; a partial list of changes is available in the Chromium git log.
Customer-level subscriptions to all Google Chat events in a Workspace organization are generally available in both the Chat API and the Workspace Events API, letting Chat apps monitor space and user events org-wide without joining every space. The feature requires service account configuration and administrator approval, and supports read-only scopes for spaces, memberships, messages and reactions, and user read states.
Chrome's Stable channel moves to 157.0.8103.26/.27 for Windows, with Mac following shortly as part of an early Stable release to a small percentage of users. The full change list is in the Chromium build log.