Posted by David Chou, Product Manager and Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineer At Google, we’re committed to bringing the most capable AI models directly to the Android devices in your pocket. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the release of our latest state-of-the-art open model: Gemma 4. These models are the foundation for the next generation […]

Posted by Matthew Warner, Google Product Manager Every developer’s AI workflow and needs are unique, and it’s important to be able to choose how AI helps your development. In January, we introduced the ability to choose any local or remote AI model to power AI functionality in Android Studio, and today, we’re announcing the availability

Google has updated its account settings to allow U.S. users to change their @gmail.com usernames while keeping all existing account data and inboxes intact. For developers, this means that while old email addresses will remain active as aliases, apps that rely solely on email addresses for identification may face issues with account duplication or lost

Google DeepMind has launched Gemma 4, a family of state-of-the-art open models designed to enable multi-step planning and autonomous agentic workflows directly on-device. The release includes the Google AI Edge Gallery for experimenting with « Agent Skills » and the LiteRT-LM library, which offers a significant speed boost and structured output for developers. Available under an Apache

TorchTPU is a new engineering stack designed to provide a native, high-performance experience for running PyTorch workloads on Google’s TPU infrastructure with minimal code changes. It features an « Eager First » approach with multiple execution modes and utilizes the XLA compiler to optimize distributed training across massive clusters. Moving into 2026, the project aims to further

We are hosting Search Central Live Shanghai 2026 on May 15. This event is structured for the local community, with a specific focus on optimizing sites that target users outside of China.

Google doesn’t train Gemini using personal emails. Here’s how Google keeps private data secure in Gmail amid new AI model upgrades.

 The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 146.0.7680.188 for Windows and Mac 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. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a

The complete set of Experience CS units is now available. With the release of the final six units, Experience CS now provides 18 cross-curricular, project-based computer science units for grades 3–8. It offers educators a collection of free, standards-aligned units to bring computing into their classrooms with confidence. This milestone marks the culmination of a…