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What's Changing

Prior to today, when using the arrow keys to move objects in Google Slides, the object would move a great distance. To improve upon this experience, the using the arrow keys to “nudge” an object will now move by 1 pixel. If you want to move the object a larger distance, use “Shift” + arrow key. 


Rollout details

  • Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 19, 2025.  

Availability: 

  • Available to Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. 

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What’s changing 

Google AI Ultra for Business is an add-on for Google Workspace that provides the highest access to AI features and models, and includes next-generation AI tools. With this launch, we are increasing the credit limit to use with Whisk and Flow for Google AI Ultra for Business users from 12,500 per user per month to 25,000 per user per month. This means you'll be able to generate twice as many clips and scenes as you build your story in Flow or animations in Whisk. 

Additionally, we’re excited to announce that starting August 19, 2025 we’re expanding availability of Whisk, our experiment that allows you to create images using both text and image prompts, to 77 additional countries. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: 
  • End users: 
    • No action needed. All users with a Google AI Ultra for Business license will see their monthly AI credits limit increase to 25,000. Use our Help Center to learn more about how AI credits in Google AI Ultra for Business work. 
    • Whisk is optimized for English, but supports a number of additional languages. See the Labs FAQ for more detail. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons: 
  • Google AI Ultra for Business 

Resources 

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What’s changing 

We’re introducing a new approval workflow option for enterprise users to request access to third-party apps that have not been explicitly configured via App Access Control (AAC) by an admin. This only applies to apps which have not been configured. If a user is able to access an app today based on the policies configured by their admin, then there will be no change and they will continue to be able to access the app. 

When end users attempt to access unconfigured third-party apps and get blocked, they will see an error screen with an option to raise a review request to admins. After the user submits a request, admins will be able to review the end user requests in app access control and make a decision. 

This feature gives enterprise users a clear process for requesting access to apps they need, reducing the likelihood of them being completely blocked and improving their productivity. For admins, it provides a centralized and efficient way to manage and configure access for new applications within their organization, while maintaining control over data security. 

An example of the dialog that the end user will see when access is blocked, with an opportunity to request access 


The dialog an end user will see if they choose to request access 


The interface in the Admin console where admins can see and process access requests from users 


The interface admins can use to configure access by OU 


Who’s impacted 

Admins and end users 

Getting started 

  • Admins: 
    • This feature will be ON by default and can be enabled at the organizational unit (OU) level. You can enable the setting for users to request access to unconfigured apps in the Admin console under API Controls Settings. Visit the Help Center to learn more about user requests for unconfigured apps. 
  • End users: 
    • There is no end user setting for this feature. When the approval workflow is enforced, users will see a new screen that allows them to request access to the app from their admin. 

Rollout pace 


Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers 

Resources 


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What’s changing 

Building upon generative image capabilities across Google Workspace, we’re excited to introduce two AI image editing features in Google Slides and Google Vids. 

To expand on the ability to edit your images, we’re adding the options to modify the background of your image beyond removing the background. Simply select your image, and click on the ‘Generate an image’ icon in the side panel, select ‘Edit’ and select "Replace background." and type in a prompt, such as ‘Minimalist product shot in studio’ and select ‘Create’. This new feature can be useful in numerous scenarios, for example: 
  • Contextualize products: Take a standard product photo (e.g., a chair on a plain background) and instantly place it in a variety of realistic settings like a modern living room, a cozy café, or an outdoor patio to help customers visualize it.
  • Company headshots/team photos: Easily remove distracting backgrounds from employee photos and replace them with a professional, unified backdrop for internal and external presentations (e.g., "Meet the Team" slides, company profiles). 
  • Tailored client presentations: Quickly adapt presentation visuals to resonate with specific clients by changing backgrounds to reflect their industry, location, or company culture. For example, show a software solution being used in a specific office environment or industry setting. 
  • Visually engaging training materials: Create more appealing training slides by replacing generic backgrounds with relevant imagery that helps illustrate concepts (e.g., a customer service representative in a dynamic call center environment). 

Replacing the background of an image in Vids 

Gemini can also now help intelligently expand the background of your images, so you can seamlessly resize and reframe visuals without distortion or compromising quality. For example, if you have a smaller image of an object in your Slides presentation and you’d like to make it bigger to increase its impact, simply open the expand feature using “Generate an image” in the side panel of Slides or the sidebar. From there, you select your desired aspect ratio and can browse different image options to preview before inserting one into your presentation. 

Expanding the background of an image in Slides 


Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

Editing images with Gemini helps those without design skills meet their imagery needs, and unlocks a new level of flexibility and professionalism for Vids and Slides presentations. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 
Anyone who previously purchased these legacy add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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In the Google Keep app on your Android device, you can now sort your notes in the primary browse view by “date created” and “date modified.” Visit the Help Center to learn more about labeling, coloring or pinning notes. 

Rollout details:

Availability: 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts.
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What’s changing 

Earlier this year, we introduced the ability to add an event to your calendar directly from an email using Gemini in Gmail on web. Today, we’re excited to announce this is now available on Android and iOS devices. 

With this update, Gemini will automatically detect calendar related content in your email and an “Add to calendar” button will appear. Upon clicking this option, the bottom panel in Gmail will open to confirm the event has been added to your calendar. 

Additional details 

If Gemini detects content about multiple events in an email, Gemini will offer to add all of them to your Google Calendar. 

Getting started 

Admins: 
End users: 
  • This feature is only available for emails in English at this time. 
  • The "Add to calendar" button will not appear for emails with already extracted events (like restaurants, flights, etc.). 
  • A calendar event created via the “Add to calendar” button will not include other guests, they must be added afterwards. 
  • Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in Gmail. 

Rollout pace 

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on Aug 13 , 2025 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter, Standard, and Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus 
  • Frontline Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google AI Pro and Ultra 
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 
 

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What’s changing 

Last year, we introduced Gemini LTI™, an AI-powered assistant that can integrate into third party Learning Management Systems (LMS). Gemini LTI™ helps enhance the educational experience for both educators and students by providing AI-driven tools and features powered by Gemini within their LMS environment, such as Canvas by Instructure and PowerSchool Schoology Learning. 

Today, we’re excited to announce that NotebookLM is now integrated with Gemini LTI™. As a result, educators can create Notebooks per week/topic and publish them within Gemini LTI. These Notebooks can include relevant teaching materials and act as an additional resource for students to use while learning. In the coming weeks, Gems will also be integrated with Gemini LTI™. 

For example, educators can:
  • Create content-grounded Notebooks that help define their curriculum and empower students to learn at their own pace. 
  • Create Gems for FAQs that help students quickly find answers to common questions about assignments, and more (coming soon). 

For example, students can: 
  • Learn on-the-go by creating a podcast-like Audio Overview of their course material with NotebookLM 
  • Get in-the-moment assistance with real-time coaching using Gems (coming soon). 




Who’s impacted 

Admins and end users 

Additional details 

Gemini LTI™ is part of Google Workspace LTI™, our suite of LTI™ tools, including Assignments LTI™, Google Drive LTI™, and Google Meet LTI™. Visit our Help Center to learn more about Workspace LTI™. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 

Resources 


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What’s changing 

Admins can now select “Warn” as an action when deploying context-aware access (CAA) levels. When applied, end users will see a warning message if they do not meet their admin defined conditions for accessing Google Workspace applications. They can click “See details” to see more information about why they received the warning – for example, they may be notified that their operating system is outdated and requires an update. The warning provides a useful reminder for the user to take action otherwise access could be blocked in the future. 

It’s important to note that “Warn” mode will not block users from accessing a particular app or service and they will have the option to proceed despite the warning. “Warn” mode helps educate users if they’re trying to access apps in a less secure situation and how to remediate this risk, while reducing the workload required by admins to socialize best practices. 
Example of a warning notification 


Example of what a user might see when they click “See details” 

Additional details 

  • Warning messages will be shown to users once every 48 hours if their device and session continues to not meet access levels to ensure minimizing end user friction. 
  • "Access Warning Sent” and “Access Warning Viewed by User” events can be reviewed in the CAA audit logs and in the security investigation tool for select Google Workspace customers. 

Getting started 


Admin app access level assignment flow

Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus 
  • Education Standard and Education Plus 
  • Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Cloud Identity Premium 

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Building upon the ability to generate images using Gemini in Google Docs on web, we’re excited to announce you can now generate images in Docs on your Android mobile device. Once you select the image, you can then save it, copy it, or insert it into a document. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Gemini in Google Docs.


Rollout Pace

Rapid and Scheduled release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 14 days for feature visibility) staring on August 8, 2025. 

Availability

Available to Business Standard and Plus; Enterprise Standard and Plus; Google AI Pro and Ultra, customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on, and anyone who previously purchased a Gemini Business or Gemini Enterprise add-on. 


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What’s changing 

You can now use Gemini to craft personalized, illustrated storybooks about any topic with read-aloud narration. You can create a story by simply describing the storybook you want in a prompt (e.g. “Create a storybook for my 2 and 4 yo daughters explaining my career to them based on my uploaded resume and photo”), or by using the new pre-made Storybook Gem, and Gemini will create a unique 10-page illustrated storybook complete with custom audio narration. You can also add content like photos and other files to teach a lesson through visual storytelling, explore moments in the past, or use it as a vibrant canvas for imaginative fiction. 

 A storybook in Gemini is created with illustrations and text based on a user’s prompt. 

Additional details 

  • This feature is available in all languages and regions supported by the Gemini app. 
  • At this time, storybooks are available to users 18+. 
  • At this time, Google Workspace business and education users cannot share storybooks. However, if a user with a personal account shares a link to a storybook, Workspace users will be able to open it, but they cannot take additional actions, such as asking Gemini to refine the content. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 

  • Web: Available now 
  • Mobile: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter, Standard, Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus 
  • Frontline Starter and Standard 
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Nonprofits 
Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
  • Gemini Education 
  • Gemini Education Premium 

*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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Earlier this year, we announced that “take notes for me” will capture next steps discussed during the meeting in a new “suggested next steps” section. Powered by AI, these next steps and follow-ups will automatically be identified and organized within the meeting notes document. 

Today, we’re expanding the language availability for “suggested next steps” to include: 
  • French 
  • German 
  • Italian 
  • Japanese 
  • Korean 
  • Portuguese 
  • Spanish 
When discussing next steps, follow up items or action items, they will automatically be captured when speaking these languages. 

Rollout: 

  • Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) started in Rapid Release and Scheduled release domains on August 7, 2025

Getting Started:


Availability:

  • “Take notes for me” is available to Business Standard and Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; the Gemini Education and Education Premium add-on and those customers who previously purchased a Gemini Business or AI Meetings & Messages add-on.
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What's Changing

We’re adding an additional data field for Google Meet log events: encryption_type, which will indicate whether standard cloud encryption or client-side encryption was used for a call endpoint. This information can also be called using the Admin Reports SDK API under the values: cloud_encryption and cse_encryption.


Example of a meeting without client-side encryption and a meeting with standard encryption. The encryption type will be captured in Meet log events going forward.

Rollout Pace:


Availability:

Available in the audit and investigation tool for all Google Workspace customers and for select Google Workspace customers in the Security Investigation tool, as well as the Admin Reports SDK API.
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What’s changing 

Last year, we introduced the ability to use Gemini in Google Drive to interact with PDFs and recently integrated this experience into Drive’s overlay file previewer.

Today, we're excited to announce that Drive now leverages a 1M token context window with large PDFs that will provide users with more helpful, comprehensive responses. 


Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 
  • Google One AI Premium 

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 

*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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What’s changing 

We’re introducing several new features in the Gemini app designed to create a more dynamic and effective learning experience. These tools are built to help you understand complex topics more deeply, prepare for exams more efficiently, and engage with educational content in new ways. Now you can use the Gemini app to: 

  • Build a deeper understanding with Guided Learning: Instead of giving you an answer, Guided Learning walks you through subjects step-by-step, breaking down complex information and providing interactive help along the way. It’s perfect for working through the process of understanding, retaining and mastering a new topic or skill. 
  • Prepare for exams with helpful study tools: We recently announced you can create quizzes in Canvas in the Gemini app. Now, you can customize the number of questions as well as the question type - for example, multiple choice or short answer. You can also ask Gemini to instantly create flashcards and study guides based on your quiz results or other class materials, providing a simple and effective way to review key concepts and reinforce your learning. 
  • Understand information more easily with integrated visuals and YouTube videos: To make learning more engaging and effective, Gemini will now automatically integrate relevant visuals, like high-quality diagrams, images, and YouTube videos, directly into its responses to help you learn. 
Guided Learning in Gemini breaks down complex topics and provides step-by-step, interactive help

Additional details 

  • These features are available in all languages and regions supported by the Gemini app. 
  • Guided Learning and integrated visuals and YouTube videos are available to Gemini app users of all ages. Quizzes, flashcards and study guides are available to users 18+ at this time. 
  • Some features are only available on the Gemini web app (gemini.google.com) and mobile web. 
  • At this time, Google Workspace business and education users cannot share content created in Canvas, which includes quizzes, flashcards and study guides. However, if a user with a personal account shares a link to content created in Canvas, Workspace users will be able to open it, but they cannot take additional actions, such as asking Gemini to refine the content. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 

  • Gradual rollout for all features (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 31, 2025. 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Starter, Standard, Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus 
  • Frontline Starter and Standard 
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Nonprofits 

Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
  • Gemini Education 
  • Gemini Education Premium 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. 

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What’s changing 

In the coming weeks, we will introduce changes to multiple settings in Google Meet hardware admin console that will offer new capabilities and a better experience for admins. These changes will impact the following settings: 
  • Alert configuration 
  • Time zone 
  • Log upload settings & Device state reporting 
  • Scheduled reboot 
While rolling out the new changes, there will be a 2-3 week period where both the new setting and old setting will be displayed. During this time, admins will see a banner in the admin console indicating this, as well as a banner indicating your previous configuration is being migrated. 

Alert configuration: 
Alerts will be more streamlined with a separate setting for Email alerts and SMS alerts. There will be one checkbox per SMS and per email alert. Options to select alerts for missing microphone, missing default camera, and other device and peripheral issues will be displayed for both email and text message alerts. 


The existing Alerts experience 


The updated, streamlined Alerts experience 


Time zone: 
We have simplified the time zone setting so it’s more customizable. The new time zone options allow admins to use the time zone configured during setup for their devices, manually select the time zone, use the device IP address, or location to detect the time zone. Note: Devices not running on ChromeOS are not supported by this feature.


The existing Time zone experience 


The updated, streamlined Time zone experience 


Log Upload Settings & Device State Reporting: 
Currently, there are three separate settings in the Admin console which control whether error reports, metrics, and logs are uploaded for troubleshooting purposes: 
  • Report diagnostics > Send Google usage metrics and logs to improve meeting room hardware 
  • Logs and feedback > Send Google usage metrics and logs periodically and after each meeting for troubleshooting purposes 
  • Error reporting > Send error reports to Google 
Going forward, this will be controlled by one unified setting found under Google Meet Hardware > Settings > Data Sharing. This update provides a more straightforward, easy to understand experience for Admins. 


The existing Log Upload Settings & Device State Reporting 


The updated Log Upload Settings & Device State Reporting 



Since we’re consolidating three separate settings into one, your previous selections will determine the default ON/OFF state for the new setting: 
  • If you have ANY of the three original settings disabled, the new unified setting will be OFF by default. 
  • If you have ALL three of the original settings enabled, the new unified setting will be ON by default. 
Additionally, the device state reporting will now be enabled for all Google Meet Hardware customers. Device state reporting provides essential insights for Google Meet hardware admins to actively manage GMH deployments, including device health, network connectivity to facilitate troubleshooting, proactive maintenance, and informed decision-making. 

Scheduled Reboot: 
Currently, you can set reboots to occur at a frequency (between 1-7 days). Soon, you'll be able to select specific days of the week for reboots. This change will make scheduled reboots happen more predictably. 


The existing Scheduled Reboot 


The Updated Scheduled Reboot 


We recommend that you review your settings to make sure you know when your devices will reboot. If you take no action on your reboot settings, they will be migrated as follows: 



Reboot Frequency
(Old Setting)		       Day
      (New Setting)
1     Daily
2, 3, 4, 5, 6     Monday, Thursday
7     Monday

Additional details 

Audit logs for all of the new simplified settings outlined in this post can be found under “Change application setting”. Legacy settings will continue to generate audit logs under the “Chromebox for meetings Device Setting Change” event until they are removed from the user interface. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 

  • Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting August 21, 2025 

Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices

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What’s changing

To simplify the process of joining meetings for those using companion mode on laptops within a conference room, we're introducing automatic room check-in via ultrasound proximity detection. To automatically check you in, the green room uses your laptop’s microphone to detect an ultrasound signal from the conference room hardware, streamlining the process and eliminating unnecessary steps.



The "Use Companion mode" button is highlighted, prompting the user to click it to join the call.

Who’s impacted

  • Admins and end users

Why it’s important

To simplify joining meetings from a conference room and prevent disruptive audio feedback, Google Meet now intelligently guides you to the best joining option.

Meet intelligently knows when you are in a room using an ultrasonic signal, and highlights the “Use Companion mode” button before you even join the call. This wayfinding feature helps ensure a seamless, echo-free start to your meeting. When you join using the highlighted Companion mode button, you will also be automatically checked into the correct room. 

Additional Details

  • Improving Room Check-in from Greenroom: Today, when at least one Google Meet hardware device is on the call and the user clicks on “Use companion mode,” Meet will present an option to check-in to the room. Room Check-in by proximity will replace this experience.
  • Platform & Browser: Only supported on Meet web (meet.google.com) for Chrome. 
  • Supported pages: Proximity detection is limited to a call's greenroom and a brief period after joining companion mode
  • Unsupported pages: Proximity detection will not function on g.co/present or g.co/companion. However, it will detect once the user joins companion mode for a brief period after joining.
  • Google Meet hardware peripherals: We have tested and verified functionality only with certified peripheral devices. While other devices might work, they are not officially supported and we cannot guarantee their performance. 

Getting started

  • Admins: 
    • A “Proximity Detection” device setting will be available in the Admin console to better support needs of each organization. Admins have granular controls to enable or disable proximity detection on specific Google Meet hardware devices.
    • Proximity Detection is on by default. This feature will be automatically enabled on all Google Meet hardware devices. If you need to change this setting:

  • End users: 
    • The Companion mode entry point will be highlighted in the greenroom when the proximity detection signal is detected. 
    • After joining a meeting in Companion mode, the user will be automatically checked into the room. If you have dynamic tiles enabled you will also be prompted to use Face Match to identify your face so your Dynamic tile shows your name instead of the room name.
    • Proximity check-in not working? See the help documentation for troubleshooting tips. You can still check in manually after joining the call.

The companion mode entry point is highlighted to inform the user that the meeting room for this call has been detected.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices

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What’s changing 

We are expanding support for the NotebookLM for Google Workspace for Education users of all ages.

NotebookLM is covered under the Google Workspace for Education Terms of Service for all Workspace for Education users. Those terms include enterprise-grade data protections, so your data is not reviewed by anyone or otherwise used to train AI models. 

Who’s impacted 

Admins and end users 

Why you’d use it 

NotebookLM is an AI-powered thinking partner that helps you understand anything. It accelerates learning and knowledge sharing, with AI grounded on the documents that matters most to you. Educators and students can add their lesson plans, education standards, lecture notes and/or course readings to get real-time summaries, guided lesson plans, discussion questions, quizzes and more. They can also generate audio overviews to take learning on the go and make content more accessible, digestible and engaging.   

Additional details 

NotebookLM is available in 180+ regions where Gemini API is available and currently supports 35+ languages. Users can only upload sources from Workspace that they have permission to access. Furthermore, they can control who has access to their notebooks and set more granular permissions within each. Notebooks can only be shared within your organization. 

NotebookLM also supports compliance with industry regulations like FERPA and COPPA.

Getting started 

  • Admins: As a Core Workspace Service, NotebookLM is enabled by default for Workspace for Education institutions. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning NotebookLM on or off for users.
  • End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about NotebookLM. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

  • Available for Google Workspace:
    • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

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What’s changing 

We recently announced that Gemini Audit logs could be accessed through the Reporting API (Admin SDK), the security investigation tool and the audit investigation tool.

Admins can export Gemini Audit logs to BigQuery Export for further analysis of user activity when interacting with Gemini across Workspace apps.



Getting started 

  • Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about reporting logs and BigQuery.
  • End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace 

Availability 

Exporting logs to BigQuery is available for Google Workspace:
  • Frontline Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Essentials Plus

Resources 

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What’s changing 

To better support Google Workspace customers operating in multi-platform environments, interoperability between Google Chat and Microsoft Teams is now available through NextPlane OpenHub.

This solution enables real-time, cross-platform messaging and collaboration, allowing Chat and Teams users to communicate using their preferred platform. Users are not locked into a single platform as they can now switch between Chat and Teams at will, ensuring flexibility and continuity across collaboration environments. Please refer to this link for a full list of supported features, in addition to details on NextPlane’s:
  • Support for data residency, compliance requirements and business continuity 
  • Commitment to minimizing operational complexity
  • Optimization for Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Usage-based licensing model

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers. Note that separate NextPlane licensing is required to enable interoperability.

Resources 

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What’s changing 

Previously available as part of the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program, we're excited to announce that the ability for developers to build Google Chat apps using the Workspace add-on framework is now generally available.

The Workspace add-ons framework makes it possible to build and maintain one app that works across multiple Workspace apps including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Chat. This reduces complexity and improves the experience for developers, system admins, and end-users. 



In Chat, Workspace add-ons can provide helpful features, such as:
  • Previewing links from Chat messages and taking action without leaving the conversation.
  • Automating tasks across Google Workspace applications.
  • Receiving  alerts or notifications from linked external services.
  • Combining external data from 3rd party apps and services with your data from Gmail, Chat, and Calendar. 
Chat app interacting with Calendar and Gmail data


Additional details 

Lucid, developers of Lucidchart, Lucidspark, and Lucidscale, recently updated their existing Workspace Add-ons to now support Chat. These integrations with Google Chat enable link previews, quick search, and access management all within Chat.

See more details on the Lucidchart, Lucidspark, and Lucidscale integrations here.

Soon, other partners, including Asana, Confluence, Figma, HubSpot, Miro, Polly, ServiceNow, Trello, 1Password, and more will be releasing Chat apps built on the Workspace add-ons framework.

Upcoming ServiceNow integration with Chat


Upcoming Figma integration with Chat

Upcoming Miro integration with Chat

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

  • Chat apps are available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts
  • Developing Chat apps is available to all Google Workspace customers

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