Google Release Notes

Organize My Files in Drive now generally available

In October 2025, we launched a beta for Organize My Files in Drive. This feature is now generally available and has started rolling out to eligible Google Workspace and Google AI plans. | Learn more about how Organize My Files in Drive is now generally available.

Introducing the ability to loop over a list of items in Workspace Studio

We are introducing the ability to loop over a list of items in Google Workspace Studio flows, bringing more power and flexibility to your everyday workflows. | Learn more about the ability to loop over a list of items in Workspace Studio.

Enhanced data protection for managed third-party apps

With this release, users are now able to maintain efficient workflows and securely move data between corporate Workspace accounts and other authorized, managed third-party applications without being blocked. | Learn more about enhanced data protection for managed third-party apps.

Quickly scan multiple pages in Google Drive on Android

Tired of scanning one page at a time? With the new Document Scanner in Google Drive on Android, you can now scan multiple pages at the same time. | Learn more about how to Quickly scan multiple pages in Google Drive on Android.

New data loss prevention capabilities for file attachments and proximity conditions are generally available

Data loss prevention (DLP) rules for non-Workspace file attachments and associated proximity conditions are now generally available. These new capabilities enable organizations to target files with specific parameters, such as blocking the sharing of sensitive file formats or identifying files that contain specific strings in their titles. | Learn more about the new data loss prevention capabilities for file attachments and proximity conditions are generally available.

Data loss prevention policies for Google Calendar now available in GA

Data loss prevention (DLP) for Google Calendar is now generally available to protect sensitive information shared within event details. | Learn more about data loss prevention policies for Google Calendar now available in GA.

Gmail as a source in Ask Gemini in Drive now generally available

Gmail sources in Ask Gemini in Drive is now generally available and has started rolling out to eligible Google Workspace and Google AI plans. Ask Gemini in Drive offers a dedicated, immersive workspace designed for deep focus. Users can engage in high-context, multi-turn conversations to efficiently explore and understand content. | Learn more about Gmail as a source in Ask Gemini in Drive now generally available.

Here’s a recap of our biggest AI updates from May, including announcements from Google I/O 2026, the Android Show and Google Health.

For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, tools and infrastructure to build products that make everyday life better for more people. Teams across Google are working on ways to unlock AI’s benefits in fields as wide-ranging as healthcare, crisis response and education. To keep you posted on our progress, we're doing a regular roundup of Google's most recent AI news.

Here’s a look back at some of our AI announcements from May.

May 2026 was packed with AI news

At Google I/O 2026, we officially entered the agentic Gemini era with the launch of Gemini 3.5 — which delivers frontier intelligence for agents and coding — and Gemini Omni, where Gemini’s ability to reason meets the ability to create. The Android Show set the stage with brand-new hardware built specifically for these tools, including the Googlebook from our hardware partners. We also broadened our personal wellness tools with the new Google Health app and Fitbit Air, and launched an initiative to apply advanced quantum science and AI to the life sciences. Ultimately, May was all about making AI more proactive, helpful and integrated into your everyday life.

Experience Gemini Omni

We announced Gemini Omni, our new model that can create anything from any input — starting with video. Omni allows you to combine images, audio, video and text as input and generate high-quality videos grounded in Gemini's real-world knowledge.

Simulate real-world places

By combining Project Genie with Street View, we introduced an experimental new way to simulate and explore highly realistic, interactive 3D environments of real-world places right from your browser.

Learn how we partner with musical artists

Through a new partnership between Google Flow Music and Believe, we're equipping artists and producers with a creative AI collaborator to help throughout the creation process, from brainstorming lyrics and melodies to putting final touches on a song.

Discover what’s possible with Gemini 3.5

We launched our latest family of models combining frontier intelligence with action. With powerful new action-taking capabilities, Gemini 3.5 is built to help you reliably execute complex, multi-step agentic workflows across your apps.

Connect with your proactive 24/7 partner

The Gemini app is becoming a more helpful AI assistant, featuring an intuitive new UI, personalized daily briefs and Gemini Spark. Instead of just answering questions, it acts as a proactive helper — managing your inbox, scheduling appointments and anticipating your daily needs in the background.

Get more done with our advanced AI models in Search

Our next era for Search introduces new features that bring together the best of the web with the best of AI. We're launching information agents in Search to intelligently work in the background, 24/7. They'll monitor information on your behalf and send detailed updates with links to dive deeper and take action. We’re also bringing Antigravity and the agentic coding capabilities of Gemini 3.5 Flash right into Search, so Search can build generative UI and interactive visuals tailored to your questions, plus custom experiences like dashboards or mini apps for your ongoing tasks. And we introduced a new, intelligent Search box, marking its biggest upgrade in over 25 years.

With agentic coding capabilities in Search, you’ll be able to ask Search to code a custom fitness tracker for you, using real-time data like reviews, live maps and weather to keep you on track.

Stay in sync with Android Halo

To help you manage your agents, we introduced Android Halo, a new space on your phone that lets you see your agents’ progress and receive contextual assistance without interrupting your flow.

Simplify your shopping with Universal Cart

Universal Cart is your new hub for shopping on Google. Universal Cart works across merchants and across services, so you can add things to your cart while you’re browsing Search, chatting with Gemini, watching YouTube or even reading your Gmail.

Try the all-new Google Health app

The Google Health app brings all of your health and wellness into one place debuting new and advanced capabilities.

Meet the all-new Fitbit Air

Fitbit Air is our smallest tracker yet — a proactive wellness partner that uses high-fidelity sensor technology in a tiny, discreet pebble that enables advanced health and fitness tracking like 24/7 heart rate, heart rhythm monitoring with Afib alerts, SpO2, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration, and more.

Discover the new Googlebook

Googlebook is our newly designed laptop experience built from the ground up for Gemini Intelligence. It features the Magic Pointer for contextual suggestions, custom widgets to help you organize your tasks, cross-device features with Android phones and powerful AI features to help you get more done. Googlebooks will be made by our hardware partners like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo.

Upgrade your phone with Gemini Intelligence

Android is becoming more proactive. With Gemini Intelligence, your advanced phone can better understand your context, turn spoken thoughts into polished text and proactively suggest actions to help you throughout your day.

Bring next-gen Android to your car

Gemini is becoming even more helpful on the road. The next generation of Android in the car brings highly conversational voice controls, proactive routing and richer entertainment options so you can do more and have more fun while driving.

Get ready for new intelligent eyewear

We revealed our upcoming intelligent eyewear, with new frames and features that let you get directions, send texts, snap photos and more — all without taking out your phone.

Understand whether content online is AI-generated

To make it easier to understand how content was created and edited, we're expanding our content transparency and verification tools in Google Search, Gemini, Chrome, Pixel and Cloud.

Explore Gemini for Science

We unveiled Gemini for Science, a collection of science tools and experiments designed to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.

See AlphaEvolve’s real world impact

Find out how AlphaEvolve has been tackling real-world problems — from optimizing complex logistical supply chains and chip design to simulating molecular systems and electrical power grids.

Discover how AI can help protect our environment

We launched the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in the Asia Pacific region, dedicated to supporting startups using frontier AI to address critical climate, energy and environmental challenges.

See how quantum computing and AI could transform life sciences

We launched the Research Program at the Intersection of Life Sciences & Quantum AI (REPLIQA), an initiative committing $10 million to five universities to apply advanced quantum science and AI to the life sciences, to improve human outcomes.

Gmail sources in Ask Gemini in Drive is now generally available and has started rolling out to eligible Google Workspace and Google AI plans.

Ask Gemini in Drive offers a dedicated, immersive workspace designed for deep focus. Users can engage in high-context, multi-turn conversations to efficiently explore and understand content.

Previously, users could only add files and folders as sources within Ask Gemini in Drive. Now, users can unlock deeper insights by adding Gmail threads as sources in Ask Gemini for Drive. Users can ground their responses in a complete view of their business context—spanning emails, files, and folders—to ensure the most helpful and accurate answers possible.

Visit the Help Center for more information on the locations and languages where Ask Gemini in Drive is currently supported.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature is available by default if Gemini for Workspace in Drive is enabled.
• End users: You must have Workspace smart features enabled to use Ask Gemini in Drive. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Ask Gemini in Drive.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 3, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Standard and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Resources

• Google Drive Help: Use Gemini in Drive for research & analysis
• Google Drive Help: Learn how to use sources with Google Workspace with Gemini
• Google Drive Help: Share your Gemini sources using Drive projects

Tired of scanning one page at a time? With the new Document Scanner in Google Drive on Android, you can now scan multiple pages at the same time. Flip through the pages of a book or lay your receipts out on a table and our Document Scanner will identify, separate, and capture each page within the camera view. It even detects duplicates to prevent accidental re-scans.

Note this is only available for Android devices with 8GB+ RAM.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about scanning documents with Drive.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

• Google Help: Scan documents with Google Drive

Chrome 149 brings major upgrades to AI assistance, introduces experimental WebMCP debugging tools in the Application panel, and expands code completion support to CSS.

Dev Tools for agents

The MCP server and CLI of Chrome DevTools for agents are now officially stable! Read the full announcement here.

Key features and new tools added up to the v1.1.1 release include:

• Custom third-party, page-exposed tools: pages can now define custom debugging tools through JavaScript, discoverable and callable by DevTools for agents.
• WebMCP debugging: DevTools for agents can now list and execute WebMCP tools.
• Custom HTTP headers emulation: Adds support for HTTP headers (such as Auth tokens or custom User-Agents) to the emulation tool.

Third-party tools and WebMCP debugging are still experimental and not yet enabled by default. Check the tool reference for info on how to use them. We will provide more documentation on developer.chrome.com once those features are ready for production use.

For the most recent updates around DevTools for agents, and to contribute, visit the GitHub repository. Get started with our documentation or get up to speed with the comprehensive Google I/O video session Supercharge your AI coding workflow with Chrome DevTools for agents.

Tip: With Modern Web Guidance the Chrome team released a set of skills to help coding agents build with the web's newest features, while supporting your Baseline target. Find install instructions in our documentation and learn more in the dedicated Google I/O video session Unlock modern web capabilities in your AI coding workflows.

AI assistance

The AI assistance panel has received a significant user interface update and new tools to improve the conversational experience and provide deeper page insights:

• Agent walkthrough: AI assistance now renders widgets directly within the chat interface instead of plain text Markdown. These widgets cover Core Web Vitals and related insights, LCP elements, LCP breakdown, Bottom-up thread activity, and more. A Reveal link inside the widget brings you to the source of this information inside DevTools.
• Copy to coding agent: Conversations now end with a dedicated button to copy the conversation, either summarized as a prompt, or the verbatim conversation, for you to paste it in your coding agent of choice.
• Upgraded capabilities: AI assistance now has access to Lighthouse and related insights, allowing it to holistically analyze your page and give targeted advice.
• Improved responses: Using Gemini 3 under the hood, and refined preambles, AI assistance gives more concise, and more actionable answers.
• Improved navigation: You can now navigate through your previous chat prompts using the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys, making it fast and intuitive to refine or re-run previous queries.

Let us know what you think by commenting on the dedicated feedback bug. In favor of Copy to coding agent, we will deprecate support for automated styling fixes through AI assistance, with Chrome 152.

Tip: Learn more about the updates to AI assistance in the dedicated Google I/O video session Break boundaries with Gemini in Chrome DevTools.

WebMCP

This release introduces experimental WebMCP debugging tools within the Application panel sidebar. WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol) allows web pages to register tools to be used by visiting LLM agents. Learn more about the proposed standard in our documentation.

The new debugging tools lets developers:

• Inspect client-side tools and their schemas.
• Manually run tools execution with custom parameters.
• Track and filter active or pending tool invocation events.
• Monitor execution status and inspect return payloads.

WebMCP is a proposed web standard in early preview. Enable the #devtools-webmcp-support and #enable-webmcp-testing flags on chrome://flags to start experimenting.

Tip: Learn more about WebMCP in the Google I/O video session Build your website for the agentic era.

Code completion for CSS

The Styles tab now features code completion for CSS with Gemini, building on the support for the Console & Sources panels. Enable code suggestions in Settings > AI innovations > Code suggestions.

This helps you to play around with more complex combinations of CSS properties, like gradients or box shadows, without remembering their exact syntax. Or to quickly build out grid- and flex- layouts, relying on multiple related properties.

The toolbar at the bottom of the Styles tab displays the status through a loading spinner. Suggestions update or clear as you type, ensuring that the AI-generated text stays relevant to your manual edits.

APCA color contrast guidelines promoted to stable

The Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA) contrast calculator has officially left its experimental phase and is now available as a standard preference setting. APCA replaces the legacy AAA/AA contrast guidelines with a modern perceptual contrast model optimized for modern displays and text rendering.

You can now enable or disable APCA guidelines using the checkbox located under Settings > Preferences > Elements > Enable APCA contrast guidelines.

Dynamic Device Mode user agent

The Responsive device mode previously used a hardcoded User Agent string (Android 6.0; Nexus 5). This caused modern websites to degrade functionality or trigger compatibility modes because the reported OS was recognized as over a decade old.

The hard coded user agent has been replaced with a dynamic heuristic that auto-updates based on the current calendar year, ensuring DevTools always reports a plausible, modern environment without requiring manual maintenance.

Other highlights

A collection of smaller improvements and bug fixes in this release:

• Console: Added a Collapse / Expand all toggle button to the Console panel toolbar to quickly expand or collapse all active console groups and stack traces at once.
• Application: Clickable hyperlinks have replaced static text for storage bucket fields in the Application metadata view. Clicking a bucket link automatically navigates to and highlights that specific bucket in the Storage Buckets sidebar panel.
• Application: Re-enabled full storage inspection support for Service Workers after resolving a crash regression.
• Application: Added support for inspecting form_submission prerendering events within the Preloading panel.
• Application: Implemented Device-Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) management, allowing developers to clear or delete active sessions from the context menu or by pressing the Delete or Backspace keys.
• Elements: Highlights on DOM nodes representing hidden issues in the Issues panel now dynamically update (appearing or disappearing) in response to issue filter actions.
• Network: Server-Sent Events (SSE) are now fully serialized and included in HAR exports, enabling ongoing, live event stream captures to be saved and re-imported into DevTools.
• Performance: Fixed Core Web Vitals tracking in the Live Metrics view to pin tracking strictly to the primary frame execution context, preventing dynamic iframe churn from resetting metrics.
• Performance: Upgraded web-vitals to v5.2.0, introducing native upstream fixes for memory leaks during INP monitoring.

Google tag gateway for advertisers in Amazon CloudFront with Tag Assistant is now available

This release introduces a new option to configure Google tag gateway for advertisers using Amazon CloudFront as your content delivery network (CDN) via Tag Assistant. This setup is facilitated by a guided workflow in Data Tag Assistant, which helps you navigate the external Amazon Web Services (AWS) console to perform the necessary configurations. Learn more about how to Set up Google tag gateway for advertisers on Amazon CloudFront via Tag Assistant.

When creating a notebook in Powerschool Schoology, Gemini LTI users can now add content directly from their course as sources. This integration allows educators and students to seamlessly bridge their course materials with AI-powered research and analysis, and generate Studio artifacts like Audio and Video Overviews, infographics, slide decks, and more based on their Schoology resources. By automating the import of Schoology course materials, users can quickly ground their notebooks in specific curriculum content without the need for manual file uploads.

Getting started

• Admins:
  • In order for educators and students to access Gemini LTI™, you’ll need to enable the Google Workspace LTI™ service in the Admin console and enable the Gemini service in the Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Gemini LTI in general.
  • Learning Management Systems admins need to enable Gemini LTI™ in their LMS as well. Visit the Help Center to learn more about setting up Gemini LTI in Powerschool Schoology.
  • For educators and students to use Schoology content as a source in NotebookLM, users must be in a group or OU with NotebookLM set to On. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning NotebookLM on or off for users.
• End users:
  • To add Schoology content notebook sources, open the Schoology homepage and select Google Gemini > Manage notebooks > Create new > Enter a title > Files > Select file(s) > Create notebook.
  • Visit the Help Center to learn more about Gemini LTI™.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

• Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Learn how to turn on Google Workspace LTI™
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Set up Gemini LTI™ in PowerSchool Schoology Learning
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn the Gemini app on or off
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn NotebookLM on or off for users
• Google Help: Learn about Gemini LTI

We’re making it easier to keep your sources and insights current in NotebookLM by enabling automatic syncing with Google Drive. Previously, if you uploaded a file in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides, you’d have to manually update it in NotebookLM to see the changes. With this update, as the content in your Drive files evolves, the information within the notebook updates automatically to match. This update ensures that you're always working with the most accurate and up-to-date information without the manual effort of re-syncing files.

NotebookLM will also strictly respect file deletions and permissions. If a user’s access to a Drive file is revoked, they will no longer be able to use that file as a source in their notebook. The source will appear in the sources list with a link to the source for the user to request access. Additionally, if a file is deleted from Drive, it will be removed from the notebook as well, ensuring your research environment stays organized and secure.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Visit the Admin Help Center to learn more about turning NotebookLM on or off for users.
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on May 26, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts with access to NotebookLM

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn NotebookLM on or off for users