The Dev channel has been updated to 157.0.8081.0 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. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Chrome Release Team
Google Chrome
Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Dev 157 (157.0.8080.0) 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.
If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Chrome Release Team
Google Chrome
You might have noticed gFiber is sporting a fresh new look—complete with an updated logo and vibrant colors! But while our appearance may be different, our foundational promise remains the same: clear pricing, incredible service, and uncompromising reliability. We’re working to build an internet service you can truly love, which means constantly upgrading our network to deliver faster speeds and richer experiences as the internet continues to develop. It also means taking care of our customers, and making sure the people who’ve been with us for a long time get the same incredible experience as those who just signed up.
Today, we’ve got big news for many of our 2 Gig customers! We’re surprising more than 22,000 customers with an extra speed boost, moving them to our Home 3 Gig product at no extra cost and with no effort on their part. Many of these customers were on the cutting edge of multi-gig adoption when they signed up for their 2 Gig service, and we’re so excited that we can now give them an extra gigabit-per-second of symmetrical speed without increasing the cost at all. These are the kinds of surprises we love to give customers—more value without more cost—not unexpected price hikes or fees.
Home 3 Gig is built to keep up with the busiest days. That extra gigabit takes performance to a whole new level—making content creation like uploading high-resolution 4K video content and live streaming in real-time significantly faster and smoother than before, while keeping 4K streaming, online gaming, and scrolling through social feeds seamless, even with the entire household uploading and downloading at once.
We’ve been working to do this upgrade since we launched our new product line last year. We upgraded 90% of our network to 25G PON to ensure it could meet not just the demands of this moment, but for the future as well. As soon as we were able to complete the work to enable this upgrade, we wanted to make sure our customers were getting the most broadband bang for their buck. This is just the first phase of this. We’re completing these network upgrades across our entire footprint, and will continue to roll out these speeds to more of our customers soon.
At GFiber, we believe staying connected should be effortless, empowering, and always getting better. Upgrading our community is just one of the ways we’re saying thank you for taking this journey with us. We’re only getting started and the best is yet to come!
Posted by Liz Hsu, Senior Director, Product & Billing
We are upgrading the underlying text-to-speech (TTS) engine powering AI voiceovers and avatar narration in Google Vids to the latest Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS model. | Learn more.
We recently introduced skills—reusable prompts that guide Gemini—in the Gemini app and Google Workspace. Over the coming weeks, skills will roll out to Workspace users and eventually replace Gems as the tool for tailoring instructions for specific tasks. | Learn more.
Captions in Google Vids are now fully customizable. Until now, captions came in a set style. You can now change their font and typography, where they sit on screen, and how they animate, so they match your brand or the look of your video. | Learn more.
Developers can now programmatically create, read, and manage comments across Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides using their respective developer APIs. In Google Docs, this update also introduces API support for suggested edits, allowing automated tools and third-party systems to propose document revisions for user review rather than altering content directly. | Learn more.
We are introducing a new option which can make the initial setup of Google Workspace Client-side encryption (CSE) significantly easier and faster for admins. | Learn more.
We recently announced a new, dedicated hub in the Gemini app to help get students started with all of Gemini's learning tools. Initially available in personal accounts, the Gemini student hub is now available to Google Workspace for Education users of all ages. | Learn more.
We are making video conferencing device interoperability between Google Meet and Microsoft Teams generally available. It was previously available in preview. | Learn more.
The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.
A look around the world of open source
As AI becomes part of everyday software development, the most compelling questions in open source are shifting from the models themselves to everything surrounding them. I’m always drawn to how technology affects individuals, and especially the workers who use and maintain it, for better or for worse (I definitely prefer better). That’s why I’m convinced the next phase of open-source AI won’t be won by chasing bigger benchmarks, but by building the open infrastructure, transparent local tooling, and community norms that keep developers and maintainers in control. This week’s reads explore what that looks like in practice.
Which of these stories will you be chatting about at your next meetup or conference? Let us know! Share with us on our @GoogleOSS X account or our @opensource.google Bluesky account.
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Home internet descriptions can be filled with technical terms and confusing acronyms. Use this guide to understand the terms that matter most when choosing an internet service.
Connection Type
Learn more about common types of home internet service. For a closer look, check out our guide to connection types.
High-speed internet access delivered via fiber, cable, DSL, fixed wireless, or satellite technology. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) defines broadband as having minimum speeds of 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload.
The technical standard cable providers use to deliver internet data over hybrid fiber-coaxial networks.
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service delivers data over copper telephone wiring. According to Broadband Search, many providers are phasing out DSL in favor of faster options like fiber or 5G.
Data travels as light pulses through glass strands, allowing signals to move faster than over electrical currents. Fiber networks run dedicated fiber-optic cables from a central facility directly to your home.
A broadband architecture using direct fiber-optic connections. gFiber builds FTTH networks to deliver symmetrical upload and download speeds.
Connects homes using mobile cellphone network radio spectrums. Signals travel from nearby cell towers to a receiver installed at your home.
Combines fiber-optic lines with coaxial copper cable for the final home connection. Often called "hybrid fiber" or "fiber-powered," HFC networks share capacity among neighboring households, which can slow speeds during peak hours, according to All Connect.
A company that provides access to the internet and related internet services.
Beams radio signals from space to a home satellite dish. While it reaches remote areas, signal quality can be impacted by weather, and speeds are generally lower.
Speed and reliability
What level of performance should you expect from your internet?
The maximum capacity of a connection at any given time. Households with multiple connected devices—such as smart TVs, phones, laptops, and security cameras—require higher bandwidth to run everything concurrently.
A device that maintains internet service during temporary power outages, by keeping your router on. gFiber offers an Internet Battery Backup with its Home 3 Gig and Edge 8 Gig products.
Measures how fast data moves from the internet to a device (in Mbps or Gbps). It’s how quickly your internet can bring data into your home and impacts everyday tasks like streaming, browsing, and downloading files. Learn more about download speed.
The delay between sending a request to a website or app and receiving a response back, measured in milliseconds (ms). Lower latency provides a smoother experience for real-time applications like online gaming and video calls. Learn more about latency.
Megabits per second (Mbps) and gigabits per second (Gbps) measure data transfer rates (how quickly information travels over your internet connection). 1,000 Mbps equals 1 Gbps.
Passive Optical Network (PON) is the core architecture fiber providers use to route signals to homes. XGS-PON and 25G PON are advanced generations of this framework supporting higher speeds. gFiber operates XGS-PON and 25G PON simultaneously.
Upload speeds match download speeds. Essential for bandwidth-heavy activities like video calls, cloud backups, live streaming, and remote work - when things need to go out and come into your network. Learn more about symmetrical speeds.
Measures how fast data travels from a device to the internet (in Mbps or Gbps). Determines performance for video conferencing, live streaming, and large file transfers. Learn more about upload speeds.
The percentage of time a service remains active and fully operational. Learn more about gFiber’s Uptime Guarantee.
Equipment and installation
Learn more about hardware setups and the terminology you may encounter during setup.
A device providing a wired or wireless pathway to the network, usually placed in the right of way in your neighborhood.
The physical expansion and connection of the gFiber network to customers in a specific area. Learn more about gFiber’s build-out process.
Protective tubing installed to shield fiber-optic cables.
A wired networking standard connecting local devices (like computers and routers) within a Local Area Network (LAN).
The fiber running into your home, attaching the home's Network Interface Unit (NIU) to the local network access point.
An Optical Network Terminal (ONT) inside the home that converts incoming optical signals into standard Ethernet for your router. Learn more about gFiber’s installation process.
Hardware that bridges a home network with an ISP's external signal. Cable and DSL connections rely on traditional modems or combined modem-routers, whereas fiber uses an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) paired with a router. gFiber routes connections directly into the Fiber Jack without a traditional cable modem.
A private network of computers and connected devices sharing a central communications link. Your home network is a LAN.
A system using multiple interconnected nodes to extend seamless wireless coverage across larger spaces and eliminate weak connection areas. Learn more about Wi-Fi equipment.
Another name for the router or gateway installed in a gFiber residence.
An exterior junction box where the Fiber Drop connects to the structure. Learn more about gFiber’s installation process.
A unit that converts optical light signals from fiber cables into standard data signals for routers. Learn more about gFiber’s installation process.
A wireless device that distributes network connectivity through Wi-Fi to your devices like phones, laptops, and smart TVs. Learn more about Wi-Fi standards.
Wi-Fi and security
Understand wireless standards and network protection.
Wireless technology that enables devices to connect to a local network and the internet without physical cables.
The router’s public identifier for devices to locate and connect to the network.
Encryption protocols safeguarding wireless networks from unauthorized access. Modern hardware (including gFiber's) enables current standards like WPA2 or WPA3 by default.
The underlying protocol generation used by a router (e.g., Wi-Fi 6, 6E, or 7). Newer generations yield improved throughput, capacity, and range. gFiber supports up to Wi-Fi 7 depending on the selected product. Learn more about Wi-Fi 7.
The primary radio frequency bands used by modern routers. The 2.4 GHz band prioritizes long-range signal propagation through walls at lower speeds; 5 GHz offers balanced speed and coverage; 6 GHz delivers peak speeds over shorter ranges with minimal interference. gFiber's Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 routers dynamically steer devices to the optimal band, which means the router automatically selects the best connection for your device.
Cost and contract terms
A deeper look at common billing and service terms.
A binding commitment to retain service over a fixed period for a set rate. gFiber does not have contracts of this type. Learn more about gFiber’s products.
A monthly bandwidth limit after which an ISP may throttle speeds or assess overage fees. gFiber never caps our products, which all come with unlimited data. Learn more about gFiber’s transparent pricing.
A recurring monthly rental fee for ISP-provided modems or routers. gFiber does not charge additional fees for hardware. Learn more about fees to watch out for when selecting an internet provider.
A standardized disclosure mandated by the FCC showing plan pricing, performance metrics, data allowances, and hidden fees. It allows you to compare between providers.
A one-time setup charge for a professional to install and activate the service in your house. gFiber does not charge additional fees for installation. Learn more about gFiber’s transparent pricing.
A promotional structure guaranteeing fixed rates for a set timeframe, after which pricing increases. gFiber does not use this type of gimmick, instead offering steady, transparent pricing for our new and existing customers. Learn more about fees to watch out for when selecting an internet provider.
Indicates whether an address is within a provider's active network footprint. Check for gFiber availability at your address.
The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 152.0.7977.152 for Windows and Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.
As Android developers, you have many choices when it comes to the agents, LLMs, tools, and command-line interfaces (CLI) you use for app development. Our goal is to help you build beautiful, high-quality Android apps, no matter how you choose to build. We’re announcing updates to our Android CLI command-line tooling, including the ability to access real devices through Android Device Streaming. We’re also sharing more Android skills, and giving you a deep dive into the Wear OS Compose Material 3 skill.
Android CLI is our tool to make command-line interface Android development easier. It supports any AI agent or tool in building more efficiently for Android.
Along with the android-cli skill, your agents use Android CLI to create, build, test, and manage Android projects, help you set up the development environment, create and run emulators, and execute test runs.
It’s important to test your app on real devices to catch issues that are hardware- or OS-specific, but sometimes you don’t have access to the ones you need. Android Device Streaming gives you access to real physical devices, remotely. Your agent can now use Android Device Streaming anywhere, through Android CLI.
The agent can interact with physical devices (as if they were plugged in over USB) over a secure ADB over SSL connection. This enables spinning up devices, deploying builds, collecting logs and traces, and even capturing screenshots headlessly—all through the terminal.
To get started, link your project, instruct your agent to list available remote devices and decide which device you want next. Read the documentation to learn more, and see the Android CLI release notes.
To bridge the gap between LLMs’ default knowledge and platform-specific standards and updates, we keep growing our Android skills repository.
Android skills are structured instructions (SKILL.md files) that ground AI agents with our official guidance from developer.android.com. Instead of relying on a model’s training cutoff, skills provide more precise and fresher data, API references and samples, and architectural patterns directly into your agent’s context.
With over 20 skills available, you can now equip your AI agents to handle more complex and specialized development tasks such as:
Our Android skills are thoroughly evaluated. To understand the philosophy and methodology behind this project, as well as why all skills should come with evals, make sure to read Inside Android Skills - Built for deprecation.
Managing skills across projects and individual agent directories is pretty straightforward with Android CLI:
android init to install the android-cli skillandroid skills listandroid skills add wear-compose-m3 --project=.android skills update --allandroid skills update wear-compose-m3 (for an individual skills)Skills are designed to be environment-agnostic. From writing code in Android Studio and Antigravity, to pairing with third-party agents like Claude and Codex, our Android skills work across your entire setup.
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Building for Wear OS means distinct design and development decisions: round viewports, rotary input, ambient display mode, minimizing power consumption, preferring TransformingLazyColumn, and using the AppScaffold and ScreenScaffolds containers.
Without explicit guidance, LLMs lack the understanding and knowledge of these distinct patterns that make the Wear apps really stand out and shine.
To help agents with this, we released the Wear Compose Material 3 skill (wear/wear-compose-m3).
Check out this video for more information on how powerful this skill is:
Early adopters are already seeing significant productivity impact with this skill. The engineering team at FotMob used it for tasks like modernizing their existing Wear M3-based app, migrating multiple lists to TransformingLazyColumn with ScreenScaffold content padding, ListHeader titles, SurfaceTransformation on cards and buttons, theme typography, and Wear previews.
The result? The changes compiled successfully and were verified on the emulator for scrolling, rotary, edge morphing and RTL. This enabled the team to delete their legacy wrapper, and all rotary and focus boilerplate.
The skill caught mistakes that the underlying model missed, such as forgetting to forward ScreenScaffold's contentPadding into the list, and using theme typography over hardcoded sp.
“One skill, one afternoon, eight lists migrated and a pile of custom rotary code gone!” - Roy Solberg, Android Tech Lead at FotMob.
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When you're ready to get started, install Android CLI with just one command. You can learn more about Android CLI by reading the developer documentation, and as well as checking out the latest updates in the Android CLI release notes.
After installing Android CLI, run android init to configure your agent, then browse the latest Android skills available for use and install them with android skills add.
Also check out the Android Device Streaming documentation to learn more about how this feature allows you to access real devices on the cloud inside both Android Studio and via your agents.
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from September 2026
Hi, everyone! We've just released Chrome 154 (154.0.8037.126) 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.