Google Workspace Changes

Increased limits to Gemini 2.5 Pro for Gemini for Education users, free of charge.

Gemini for Education now offers significantly higher limits for Gemini 2.5 Pro, making premium AI models more accessible to students and educators free of charge. This update, building on last month's announcement of Gemini for Education, provides enhanced capabilities like personalized quizzes, step-by-step topic breakdown, and brainstorming tools. Gemini 2.5 Pro is available by default to all Gemini app users within Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus subscriptions, providing enterprise-grade data protection.

Enterprise security and privacy controls for Google Workspace with Gemini, including prompt injection mitigation and granular admin controls.

Google Workspace with Gemini offers robust enterprise-grade security and privacy, ensuring customer data confidentiality and compliance with regulations like HIPAA and FedRAMP High. It features a layered defense strategy against prompt injection attacks and provides granular user access and data security controls, empowering administrators to safely deploy AI tools like the Gemini app, Gemini in Workspace apps, and NotebookLM.

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.

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.