Besides Gemini automation, Google today announced the latest Circle to Search features for the Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10.

After losing with the broader Material 3 Expressive redesign, the Google Messages Details page has regained edit history.

Waymo autonomous vehicles date back to Google’s self-driving car project that started in 2009. As of today, you can get a ride in 10 cities across the US.

In August of 2024, Google Messages started testing a circular redesign of read receipts. This has been slowly rolling out since then, and there now looks to be wide availability for beta users.

Just under a year after expanding to the US, YouTube Premium Lite is adding background playback and offline downloads for “most videos.” 

Following music generation last week, the Gemini app is upgrading video generation with templates.

Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway.

Following last month’s big Gemini in Chrome update, AI Mode in Google’s desktop browser is getting its own upgrade in the address bar.

NotebookLM has received a slew of updates in the past few days, headlined by Gemini 3.1 Pro and slide customizations.

In November, Call Recording for the Pixel Phone app began rolling out broadly, and it’s now getting international availability. 

Google is officially announcing a trio of new desktop Chrome productivity features today: Split View, PDF annotation, and Save to Google Drive.

In November, Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro in preview, with Gemini 3 Flash following a month later. Google today announced Gemini 3.1 Pro “for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.”

After soft-launching in December, Snapseed for iOS is now officially rolling out its new camera that makes the app more than just an image editor.

Following text, audio overviews, images, and video, the Gemini app’s latest output is music with Lyria 3. 

For the third update in a row, Google Home is improving automations. Google has a trio of new features and changes with the February 17, 2026 release notes.

After introducing on the Pixel 10 last year, Google is expanding Quick Share support with AirDrop to the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, and 9 Pro Fold. 

According to the latest release notes for Google Play services, Android phones will be getting a “new local file backup feature” powered by Google Drive.

Gemini for Android has rolled out tweaks to the chat page that make sharing and the overflow menu more prominent actions.

As we wait for the broader redesign, Gboard for Android is getting a nice quality-of-life improvement with the “auto-switch after apostrophes” shortcut.

After introducing text-to-speech in August, Google Docs is now rolling out audio summaries. 

Deep Think is Gemini’s “specialized reasoning mode,” and Google today announced a “major upgrade” to let it “solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering.” 

After announcing in December, Google is more widely rolling out tab pinning in Chrome for Android.

A small update to the Pixel VPN by Google lets you more easily check connection status from the Quick Settings (QS) Tile.