Following AI-powered live translation and language practice capability, Google Translate is adding a model picker with “Fast” and “Advanced” options.

Like the Weather app, Google officially announced today that Clock for Wear OS is now only available for the Pixel Watch.

Alphabet today reported Q3 2025 earnings, and CEO Sundar Pichai shared that the Gemini app has over 650 million active users. 

Following the last edition on Friday (which the Gemini for Home voice assistant requires), release notes for Google Home 4.2 are now available.

The chat feature in NotebookLM is getting significant improvements today to “performance, quality, and contextual understanding,” as well as the ability to set goals.

In starting the Gemini for Home voice assistant preview today, Google also shared when Gemini for Google TV is coming to more devices, like the Google TV Streamer. 

Gboard for Android is rolling out a new Flick keys shortcut that lets you quickly enter numbers and symbols with a swipe down.

After the tenth addition earlier this month, Google Wallet on Android is now rolling out support for Puerto Rico IDs.

Google is beginning to roll out the Gemini for Home voice assistant in the US for devices set to English on all Nest speakers and displays from the past decade. Make sure you’re enrolled in the Early Access program.

As previewed alongside the Pixel Watch 4 launch in August, Google will begin rolling out a Public Preview of Fitbit Coach “starting tomorrow and over the next week” in the US. The idea is to leverage AI and Gemini models to give you a personal coach, just like how athletes have a team around them providing support.

The rollout of Chrome’s M3 Expressive redesign, which began in late August, is now complete. It comes a few weeks after most first-party apps have received their updates.

Gems are custom instances of Gemini with specific instructions suited for particular tasks. The latest premade Gemini Gem by Google is called “wellness.”

Following desktop in July, Chrome for iOS and Android’s New Tab Page now has a shortcut for AI Mode, as well as Incognito.

Google is widely rolling out the next Gemini app redesign that brings the model switcher into the prompt bar to consolidate controls.

Following the announcement last week, the video player, icon, and app-wide redesign is now widely rolling out to YouTube for Android and iOS.

Alongside the series of announcements earlier this week, Google Fi made official HD calling. Its absence has been a long-standing and noticeable complaint from subscribers.

The YouTube family of apps have their own design language, and the latest change is an updated icon set that is widely rolling out to YouTube Music.

Besides seeing your status in the top-right corner, Play Points can now be viewed in Google Wallet for Android.

After widely rolling out the “Font size” setting last week, the latest Gboard for Android update lets you hide the period and comma keys.

Google Fi is getting a series of notable updates in the coming weeks that improve messaging, browsing, and calling, with Google AI playing a role.

Following the Material 3 Expressive redesign earlier this month, Google Wallet will be adopting Android 16’s Live Updates “for key travel journeys.”

Gemini is cleaning up its apps, previously known as extensions, for more direct integrations that don’t require invoking @YouTube or @Google Maps.