Google Workspace Changes

Gems, custom AI experts, are now available directly in the side panel of Google Sheets, allowing users to leverage customized AI assistance without switching applications.

Gems, which are custom AI experts designed to help complete specific goals, tasks, and workflows, are now integrated directly into the side panel of Google Sheets. This integration allows users to utilize both custom and pre-made Gems, such as a writing editor or sales pitch ideator, within the Google Sheets application. The feature aims to enhance efficiency by minimizing repetitive prompting and enabling tailored AI assistance for various tasks like creating content, generating sales interactions, or reviewing documents, all without needing to navigate away from the current application.

Gems, custom AI experts, are now available directly in the side panel of Google Drive, allowing users to leverage customized AI assistance without switching applications.

Gems, which are custom AI experts designed to help complete specific goals, tasks, and workflows, are now integrated directly into the side panel of Google Drive. This integration allows users to utilize both custom and pre-made Gems, such as a writing editor or sales pitch ideator, within the Google Drive application. The feature aims to enhance efficiency by minimizing repetitive prompting and enabling tailored AI assistance for various tasks like creating content, generating sales interactions, or reviewing documents, all without needing to navigate away from the current application.

Gems, custom AI experts, are now available directly in the side panel of Google Docs, allowing users to leverage customized AI assistance without switching applications.

Gems, which are custom AI experts designed to help complete specific goals, tasks, and workflows, are now integrated directly into the side panel of Google Docs. This integration allows users to utilize both custom and pre-made Gems, such as a writing editor or sales pitch ideator, within the Google Docs application. The feature aims to enhance efficiency by minimizing repetitive prompting and enabling tailored AI assistance for various tasks like creating content, generating sales interactions, or reviewing documents, all without needing to navigate away from the current application.

Gems, custom AI experts, are now available directly in the side panel of Gmail, allowing users to leverage customized AI assistance without switching applications.

Gems, which are custom AI experts designed to help complete specific goals, tasks, and workflows, are now integrated directly into the side panel of Gmail. This integration allows users to utilize both custom and pre-made Gems, such as a writing editor or sales pitch ideator, within the Gmail application. The feature aims to enhance efficiency by minimizing repetitive prompting and enabling tailored AI assistance for various tasks like creating content, generating sales interactions, or reviewing documents, all without needing to navigate away from the current application.

Gems are now available in the side panel of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, and Gmail.

Gems, custom AI experts, are now integrated directly into the side panel of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, and Gmail. This allows users to leverage personalized AI assistance, including custom and pre-made Gems, without switching applications. This integration aims to streamline workflows by minimizing repetitive prompting and enabling tailored content creation, sales interactions, and role-specific assistance directly within Workspace apps.

Improved Google Meet hardware admin log events now offer more granular details and a new event category for better tracking and troubleshooting.

Google Meet is enhancing its hardware administration log events within the Google Workspace Admin console. The deprecated 'HANGOUTS DEVICE SETTING' event category is being replaced by a new, more precise 'GOOGLE MEET HARDWARE' event type. This update provides administrators with a more comprehensive audit trail, including granular device-specific information like device ID, resource IDs, and device type, for actions such as changing lifecycle state, OU membership, device properties, performing bulk actions, and running commands on Meet devices. This increased visibility aims to improve an organization's security posture and facilitate more effective troubleshooting of Google Meet hardware issues.

Google Workspace admins can now access Gemini for Google Workspace audit logs via the Reporting API, Security Investigation Tool, and Audit Investigation Tool.

Google Workspace has introduced new capabilities for administrators to monitor Gemini for Google Workspace usage through audit logs accessible via the Reporting API, the Security Investigation Tool, and the Audit Investigation Tool. These logs provide insights into user actions initiated or assisted by Gemini within various Workspace applications (e.g., Chat, Gmail, Docs), detailing the specific app and features used (e.g., "help me write", "remove image background"). This allows admins to track adoption, understand feature utilization, identify training needs, and pinpoint power users, helping organizations maximize their Gemini investment. Importantly, these logs do not include user-provided prompts or Gemini-generated outputs.