Barry PollardMay 19
Paul Kinlan

I'm excited to share 15 updates from Google I/O 2026. We have updates across the agentic web, new capabilities and some great tools for developers.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-at-io26

If you are at IO, come and talk to me and the team in the Chrome area.

15 updates from Google I/O 2026: Powering the agentic web with new capabilities, tools, and features in Chrome  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Learn about the key announcements from Google I/O 2026.

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Show threadKenji BaheuxMay 19

RE: https://status.kinlan.me/@paul/116602583017877319

@paul and folks can ask me about number 16 at the Chrome sandbox after the dev keynote!

Show threadspartanatreyuMay 20

@paul

Seeing how ensloppified Google is becoming is just depressing.

At least there were two good things, it's just sad they were hidden away.

HTML in Canvas is nice since it makes the easiest way to throw a shader on some content the same way that preserves accessibility.

Declarative Partial Updates could be really powerful if they make it easy to mark a fragment as cached so it can be reused across pages.

Show threadPaul KinlanMay 20
@spartanatreyu were very bullish on things like html in canvas - you can't see it if you're not here but we have a lot of booths and demos that show the web improving even if LLMs are not your thing
Show threadIan WilliamsMay 28

@paul Thanks for your coverage. It was a good IO since we got some non-AI things this time.

Quick question, though. Is there anyone working devrel for ChromeOS/Googlebooks? There doesn't seem to be a face or easy point of contact anymore.

Show threadPaul KinlanMay 28
@icwillwrite yeah there is. Not on my team though. If you email me I can connect you if you have some specific questions
Show threadIan WilliamsMay 28
@paul Will do!