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Convert your Google Slides to videos in 7 additional languages
Google Vids already lets you convert your Slides content into Vids with AI-generated scripts, voiceovers, background music, and animations for presentations and accounts in English.
We’re now expanding support to French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Getting started
- Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
- End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about converting Google Slides into Google Vids.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on June 30, 2026
- Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on July 20, 2026
Availability
- Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Education: Education Plus
- Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
- Other Editions: Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits
- Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
- Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access
Resources
- Google Help: Convert Google Slides into Google Vids
Source: Google Workspace Updates
Create shareable video clips in seconds with Video Remix in Google Photos.
With Video Remix in Google Photos, you can transform ordinary videos into share-worthy moments in just a few taps.
Source: The Official Google Blog
Chrome Stable for iOS Update
Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Stable 150 (150.0.7871.113) 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. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Chrome Release Team
Google Chrome
Source: Google Chrome Releases
3 ways this coffee shop is growing with Gemini
Small businesses like coffee shops can use Gemini to save time on graphic design, email marketing and sales forecasting.
Source: The Official Google Blog
We’re boosting agroforestry efforts to help the atmosphere and farmer livelihoods.
Google is announcing a long-term agreement with Thryve.Earth for 260,000 tons of carbon removal.
Source: The Official Google Blog
Evolving how LLMs are measured for Android: the next era of Android Bench
Back in March, we introduced Android Bench—our LLM leaderboard for real-world Android development tasks. Our goal was to provide transparency around model capabilities in Android development and to encourage model improvements, to give you more helpful AI options for your everyday workflow. Since then, we have enhanced the benchmark based on your feedback, including evaluating open-weight models and adding cost and efficiency dimensions to the leaderboard.
But AI capabilities are ever-evolving, and measurement needs to follow suit. As part of our July release, we have adopted the Harbor framework, which includes an updated version of the benchmarking agent used to evaluate models.
Along with this change to our evaluation, in this July release we’re adding 8 new models (Claude Fable 5, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Opus 4.8, GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.7 Code, MiniMax M3, Qwen 3.7 Plus and Qwen 3.7 Max) to the leaderboard. We’re also sharing opportunities for you, the Android developer community, to contribute to the benchmark.Upgrading our methodology with the Harbor framework
When we designed Android Bench, we anchored our methodology on leading industry standards available at the time. We used mini-swe-agent v1, a general-purpose benchmarking agent, and adapted it to the nuances of Android development to provide a baseline measurement for the capabilities of models for common Android development tasks.
To continue providing you with state-of-the-art evaluations that accurately measure the latest model capabilities on Android development, we are standardizing our benchmark to the Harbor framework. Harbor defines standards and integrations that make it easy for anyone to run the benchmark, evaluate their preferred set-up, or share results – providing you with additional transparency and visibility.
This upgrade enables us to more rigorously evaluate models and their capabilities, and we re-ran the benchmark on all models to establish an updated baseline. This means there is a minor shift in scoring, but you will still be able to view historical scores within the archive on our website.
We want to ensure Android Bench is helpful for you, so we will continuously update it as our evaluations and the industry mature.
Expanding the leaderboard with 8 new models
As part of our commitment to keeping the leaderboard fresh, we have added Claude Fable 5, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Opus 4.8, GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.7 Code, MiniMax M3, Qwen 3.7 Plus and Qwen 3.7 Max to the Android Bench leaderboard.
You will see that Claude Fable 5 is at the top of the leaderboard with a score of 84.5, followed by GPT 5.5 with 80.2, with Claude Sonnet 5 in 3rd with a score of 76.2.
When just comparing Open-weight models, GLM 5.2 is at the top with 72.2, followed by Kimi K2.7 Code with a score of 70.4.
You can check out model performance and efficiency metrics on the updated leaderboard to see how these new and previous models navigate Android-specific challenges like Jetpack Compose migrations, wearable networking, and platform API updates.
Opening Android Bench to community contributions
From the beginning, we’ve valued an open and transparent approach, which is why we made our original methodology and test harness publicly available on GitHub. You’ve asked for a way to provide feedback on our dataset, so now we’re taking collaboration a step further by giving you, the Android developer community, a chance to shape Android Bench.
Starting today, you can contribute to Android Bench in two ways:
- Design and submit your own Android development tasks to evaluate how models handle the scenarios that matter to you.
- Run and share benchmark evaluations firsthand, testing your preferred models against our dataset or your own custom tasks.
We will be reviewing the submitted tasks and will be assessing if they get added to the benchmark. We hope to build a benchmark that truly reflects the diverse, day-to-day realities of the global Android developer community.
Looking ahead
With more and more options for agentic development, maintaining a cutting-edge benchmark ensures that the AI assistance you rely on keeps getting smarter, more helpful, and more effective. Head over to our GitHub repository to check out the tasks. We invite you to submit a task to our team for review, and you can check out Harbor Hub to explore the dataset or submit evaluations.
As always, you can find the updated leaderboard, or read the methodology on our website.
Source: Android Developers Blog
A fresh look at Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia on Street View
Street View returns to Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.
Source: The Official Google Blog
Dev Channel Update for ChromeOS / ChromeOS Flex
The ChromeOS Dev channel is being updated to OS version 16733.12.0 (Browser version 151.0.7922.14) for most ChromeOS devices.
- File a bug
Visit our ChromeOS communities
General: Chromebook Help Community
Beta Specific: ChromeOS Beta Help Community
Interested in switching channels? Find out how.
Alon Bajayo
Google ChromeOS
Source: Google Chrome Releases
New calendar sharing permission level and changes to recurring event visibility
We're introducing a new calendar sharing permission level: “Make changes (see private events as free/busy)”. This allows you to grant someone edit access to your calendar while keeping the details of your private events entirely hidden. This is especially useful for leaders who assign delegates to help them manage their calendars.
Delegates assigned this restricted permission level will only be able to create, delete, and edit non-private events. Private events will appear to delegates as “busy” blocks on the calendar grid, and delegates will not be able to edit or reschedule them. In addition, private events won’t show up in any search results for delegates.
Changes to visibility for recurring events
We’re also introducing changes to the way visibility settings are applied to recurring events.
- Users can no longer make changes to the visibility of a single event in a recurring series. Any changes to visibility will be applied to all events in the series.
- Existing events in a recurring series will be updated to match the strictest visibility setting of any event in that series. In other words, if one event in the series is marked private but the others are not, all events in that series will be changed to private.
Getting started
- Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
- End users: Users can grant delegates this new permission level in their Calendar settings. Visit the Help Center to learn more about sharing your calendar.
Rollout pace
- Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 7, 2026
Availability
- Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts
Resources
- Google Calendar Help: Share your calendar


