#GoogleIOConnect Berlin brought the energy, the code, and the community! Experience the highlights from Chrome as developers dive into native browser AI, test next-gen debugging protocols, and build what’s next for the web ⬇️

Upgrade your workflows with the latest Chrome DevTools advancements across versions 148, 149, and 150. Discover the power of DevTools for agents, now stable, allowing your coding agent to interact with live browsers, run audits, and debug extensions → goo.gle/4eWruTL

It can be challenging for AI agents to solve complex user intents by synthesizing signals like screenshots, the DOM, and the Accessibility Tree. Enter WebMCP, a proposed web standard that aims to expose structured tools for AI agents directly on existing websites, now in origin trial ⬇️

Chrome Web Ecosystem Consultant Yu Tsuno works hand-in-hand with partners to build a safer web. At #GoogleIOConnect Berlin, he’s presenting on modern authentication technologies like passkeys and email verification, plus offering a sneak peek into securing identity for the emerging agentic web!

Really insightful workshop about WebMCP at #GoogleIOConnect - this actually might make a lot of sense to integrate in our appointment booking product. What makes it useful is that agents do not have to use the same flows as people and can answer questions like: “when is the next available time?”

Meet @sebabenz.bsky.social, our Chrome Extensions DevRel Lead. At #GoogleIOConnect Berlin, Sebastian is focused on helping you build better extensions and easily customize Chrome to your exact specifications using Antigravity and Chrome DevTools for Agents.

It's amazing to see how much Modern Web Guidance improves the process. You can read all the docs here: goo.gle/4esK6uB

Having themed Ice cream at #GoogleIOConnect with @bram.us Temperature is getting ridiculous though. 😅 Also a lot of AI stuff. Looks like it's really growing up this year. I like modern web guidance. It's a good foundation for some of the harder js-polyfills #BuildwithGemini

When she isn't drinking mocha or cooking up fusion recipes, Google DevRel @taraojo.bsky.social is helping developers build better websites. At #GoogleIOConnect Berlin, she’s showing how Modern Web Guidance delivers expert-vetted, AI-ready capabilities straight to your coding environment.

Enjoying the sessions and food with @html5test.com at #GoogleIOConnect in Berlin. #BuildWithGemini Great to see build-in AI in Chrome getting more traction.

Meet Google DevRel Engineer @tomayac.com, who specializes in Web AI and WebAssembly. At #GoogleIOConnect Berlin, Thomas will focus on helping developers build privacy-first, on-device AI web apps natively in the browser, entirely client-side and with zero API keys required.

Building AI features shouldn't mean your app breaks the moment a user loses network connection. With Chrome’s built-in AI APIs, you can run models directly on-device. Standardize on offline-first translation, structured JSON prompting, & local summarization with zero network latency→ goo.gle/3SfFGP5

Discover the latest AI tooling announcements from #GoogleIO, including Chrome DevTools for agents, Modern Web Guidance, and AI assistance in Chrome DevTools. Learn how these advancements empower your AI coding agents to build modern web experiences with greater clarity and velocity 🌐

We caught up with devs ahead of #GoogleIOConnect in Berlin to see which new web platform capabilities are actually making it into their daily builds. Here are the features topping the list right now ⬇️

Chrome 150 beta is now live with native styling primitives. The CSS text-fit property automatically scales text nodes to perfectly fit their containing box width, and relative alpha colors let you generate translucent variants with the alpha() function → goo.gle/4eagDEl

A global team bringing you the future of the web. We're always grateful for all the hard work and collaboration our devs do on a daily basis 🌐

The newest @angular.dev release brings significant benefits to web developers, focusing on improved ergonomics and powerful new features → goo.gle/4fTi9xd

Markdown image syntax is notoriously hard. With multimodal input in the Prompt API, your browser can ""see"" images locally to return a structured JSON object with alt text and captions. No server latency, just private, reliable data to build your <figure> tags → goo.gle/4uMFh4e

In the past, rebranding or restructuring your site would break installed PWAs because app identity was tightly coupled to the origin. PWA Origin Migration in Chrome 150 fixes this. Move your installed app to a same-site domain using a secure, two-way handshake → goo.gle/3PMinvu

PixiJS v8.19.0 is out 🎉 HTML-in-Canvas support is live! Time to make the web fun again! Plus lots of fixes and improvements across the engine More in the blog post below

🧪 Explore the latest advancements for AI platform announced at #GoogleIO 2026, featuring WebMCP, Built-in AI, and Skills in Chrome → goo.gle/49ZGGg9

We've published initial security guidance for developers building agents that use WebMCP. We're working on building a secure infrastructure for the agentic web, and this is just the beginning → goo.gle/4gcp6JH

Solved: AI coding tools that hallucinate legacy web practices. Modern Web Guidance codifies decades of Chrome's platform expertise into your agents. Level up with guides for web best practices and new platform features, using Baseline data for cross-browser reliability → goo.gle/4on8BMS

May brought big updates to the web platform: You can now use native lazy loading for video and audio elements to easily save bandwidth and boost performance. Plus, CSS name-only container queries are Baseline newly available, simplifying your code → goo.gle/4dWV8qn

Element-Scoped View Transitions have shipped in Chrome 147! Call element.startViewTransition() to start a View Transition on a specific DOM subtree while keeping the rest of the page interactive. Perfect for building incredible, isolated micro-interactions → goo.gle/4gal7xc

Balancing advanced, engaging experiences with core web performance is a big challenge. In case you missed the latest announcements from #GoogleIO, new features like Modern Web Guidance, DevTools for agents, and HTML-in-Canvas are here to help make it easier.

Using canvas on the web usually means sacrificing browser features, but not anymore. The HTML-in-Canvas API lets you integrate real DOM elements directly into the canvas to build complex 3D web UIs that are fully inspectable, translatable, and accessible → goo.gle/4gal7xc

The WebMCP origin trial is available in Chrome 149 → goo.gle/4x97wMK By joining, you can integrate WebMCP for live testing, gather user feedback, and directly inform future iterations of the API.

Chrome 149 DevTools has shipped → goo.gle/4v55cVT Stay in your flow with these key updates: 💡 Agent walkthrough & Copy to coding agent in AI assistance 🎨 CSS Code Completion from Gemini in the Styles tab 🤖 WebMCP debugging tools in Application panel 🚀 DevTools for agents 1.0 with custom tools

We walked the floor at #GoogleIO and asked developers one simple question: What was your favorite part of I/O this year? 🎤

Chrome 149 has landed → goo.gle/4uSvj2a Say goodbye to hacky borders and pseudo-elements—you can now natively style container gaps using CSS gap decorations. Plus, active WebSockets will no longer block your pages from instantly restoring via the bfcache!

These might be the biggest changes to HTML in decades. Declarative Partial Updates let you render out-of-order HTML and build UI placeholders with zero JS. Combine it with the new streaming APIs to fetch and inject HTML directly into the DOM, simplifying Island architecture → goo.gle/49Bz9nK

✅ Nice lil btn scale-down 🙈 Layout change bc the scroll bar disappears 🙈 No light dismiss These UX problems can easily be solved with: - closedby="any" - overscroll-behavior: contain

Testing generative AI is difficult when one input leads to thousands of unpredictable answers. We published a guide on WebMCP evals to help you test LLM touchpoints. Verify that agents understand your schemas and can successfully complete full user journeys → goo.gle/4ftQUZI #GoogleIO

🛑 Stop letting your coding agent burn tokens guessing at performance fixes. With Chrome DevTools for agents, your AI can verify and automate fixes using real traces and agentic Lighthouse audits → goo.gle/4wVbLvc

AI coding tools are powerful at writing code, but they can't inspect execution in a live browser. The stable 1.0 release of Chrome DevTools for agents provides your AI assistant with the visibility it needs to verify, debug, and optimize code in real time → goo.gle/42K7Rrl #GoogleIO

Make your web application easy to understand for AI agents → goo.gle/3ReK3JD The latest Lighthouse update lets you audit how "readable" you site is for agents using deterministic audits: 🛡️ Programmatic element names 📐 Visual layout stability 📂 Machine-readable summaries #GoogleIO

My Google IO demo of HTML in Canvas and Web MCP github.com/PaulKinlan/3...

The Before: Fast-paced backstage code reviews and nerves 💻 The After: Pure relief, community questions, and coffee ☕️ #GoogleIO

At #GoogleIO, we shared our vision for a web where signing in isn't a chore. Authentication should be a secure entry point that actually makes users feel safe from the start. Our new guide will show you how to fix your account flows, eliminate friction, and protect your users → goo.gle/3Rd5TgI

I've been exploring what it takes to ship a prompt as an agent, and I think Chrome Extensions are a great way to do that. aifoc.us/shipping-a-p... Code: github.com/PaulKinlan/p...

Here's the recording of this year's “What's new in Web UI” talk @una.im and I gave at Google I/O earlier this week. youtu.be/uT7MVcCQ4rw Very happy with how it went, and I think you might find it useful, so give it a watch 😊 #ChromeDevRel #GoogleIO

The resources from my #GoogleIO talk "Build new features using built-in Al in Chrome": 👉 goo.gle/trailblazers (the trailblazers travel blog used as the running example during the talk) 👉 goo.gle/starter-exte... (the Eleventy blog template with editor you can use) 👉 goo.gle/built-in-ai-... (the docs)

@kulikowski.bsky.social 's I/O talk is a treasure trove to prepare your site for AI agents: 1. How agents 'see' your site, best practices to prepare, and developer tooling. 2. WebMCP deep dive with cool demos, Puppeteer & DevTools support. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdCc... #AgenticWeb #WebMCP

Imagine if your AI coding partner actually understood Baseline. With the new Modern Web Guidance early preview, it can. We’ve packaged 100+ guides that prioritize modern implementations while always providing a fallback for features that aren't widely available yet → goo.gle/49Kt9sG

Manual runtime checks shouldn't bottleneck releases → goo.gle/4ww17L8 By integrating Chrome DevTools for agents into their workflow, CyberAgent successfully automated a complex and time-consuming debugging task. #GoogleIO

That’s a wrap on #GoogleIO! 🎬 ✨ Missed a moment or want to dive deeper? All sessions, including the full Developer Keynote, are now available to watch on-demand. Catch up on the latest in AI, Android, Chrome, and Cloud whenever, wherever you want. Watch now: goo.gle/IO2026VOD-5

Finding a hotel 'near Grandma' shouldn't require many manual clicks. At #GoogleIO, Expedia used WebMCP to expose structured tools directly to browser agents. See how the agent updated locations and navigated to checkout with native reliability.

AI agents can already write extension code, and now we're helping to level them up. At #GoogleIO, we launched the Chrome Extensions skill via Modern Web Guidance and Chrome DevTools for agents. Learn how to build extensions faster → goo.gle/4vllLfZ

WebMCP will enter the Origin Trial in Chrome 149, just a few weeks away. But you can try it today by enabling a Chrome flag! Want to now more? Check out the docs at developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/webmcp