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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 

Building upon our recent announcements of using Gemini in Google Forms to summarize form responses and quickly create a new form, we’re introducing an additional AI-powered feature that can help save you time. 

Starting today, Gemini can use existing form content to suggest new relevant question types, question text, and answer options. This update helps users expand and enhance their forms by covering key points using context-specific ideas. 

The “Suggest questions” button will be shown at the bottom of a form when a form contains at least two questions. Once it's clicked, Gemini will generate two to four relevant questions with an option to choose the questions and insert them into the existing form. 


Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why you’d use it 

When creating a form, we know it can often be challenging to decide what question(s) to add next, with this feature, Gemini provides you with new ideas for questions without having to write a prompt. 

Additional details 

At this time, this feature does not support: 
  • The generation of questions in multi-section forms. 
  • The quiz-specific settings while generating questions in quizzes in Form. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: To access Gemini in the side panel of Workspace apps, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on the default personalization setting for their users in the Admin console.
  • End users: When you have added at least two questions to your form, click “Suggest questions” and then choose which of the suggested questions you want to insert into the form. Forms is currently available in the user’s local language, but AI features, such as the 'Suggest questions' feature, is only available in English at this time. Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating a form with Gemini in Google Forms. 

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 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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