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Last year, we announced that educators can use NotebookLM to create teacher-led AI experiences for students in Google Classroom, based on their class materials. Since then, students have been able to access their teachers’ interactive study guides and other learning aids created with NotebookLM for extra practice, support, and learning opportunities. Today, we’re allowing students in higher education who are 18 years of age and older to create their own notebooks for courses in Google Classroom.

From the Gemini tab in Google Classroom, students can use NotebookLM to create a personal class notebook that is grounded in the materials provided by their educator. Personal class notebooks can transform how students interact with these class resources, unlocking new ways to build understanding by converting class materials into interactive and multi-modal study tools. This can help students with:

  • Creating custom study tools: Students can use the "Studio" panel within their notebook to generate various high-value outputs, including Audio Overviews (podcast-style summaries), Video Overviews, study guides, flashcards, and interactive visual diagrams.
  • Summarizing and synthesizing: Students can quickly synthesize information across up to 50 source documents per notebook, making it easier to prepare for exams or catch up on missed lessons.
  • Direct-to-student support: By using the Gemini tab directly in Classroom, students can ask questions and get grounded answers based strictly on their class content, ensuring help is relevant and reliable.
  • Enhanced creativity: Students can go beyond text by creating infographics, slide decks, and other visual aids to help them internalize and present what they’ve learned.
This feature will roll out on the web first, with mobile following in the coming weeks.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

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Seamlessly join meetings on Google Meet hardware with “Connect Room”

In December 2025, we introduced Connect room to organizations on the Rapid Release track enrolled in Early Preview Rooms. We’re excited to announce that this feature is now rolling out to all Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware. | Learn more about how to seamlessly join meetings on Google Meet hardware with “Connect Room”.

Introducing Workspace Intelligence, with admin controls

We announced Workspace Intelligence, an underlying AI system that provides Gemini with a real-time understanding of your work across Google Workspace. | Learn more about Workspace Intelligence, with admin controls.

New Gemini capabilities in Google Docs help you go from blank page to brilliance

We’re reimagining the AI writing experience in Google Docs to help you move from a blank page to a finished document faster than ever. Google Docs is evolving from a traditional word processor into a collaborator that understands your organization’s context. | Learn more about the new Gemini capabilities in Google Docs help you go from blank page to brilliance.

Build and edit complex spreadsheets with Gemini in Google Sheets

We’re excited to introduce new Gemini in Sheets capabilities that enable you to build and edit entire spreadsheets using simple natural language. | Learn more about how to build and edit complex spreadsheets with Gemini in Google Sheets.

Paste and convert unformatted text into Google Sheets tables with Gemini

We're excited to introduce a new AI-powered feature in Google Sheets that allows you to transform unstructured text into organized tables. | Learn more about how to paste and convert unformatted text into Google Sheets tables with Gemini.

Effortlessly automate data entry in Google Sheets using Fill with Gemini

We're introducing Fill with Gemini in Google Sheets, a new AI-powered feature designed to make data preparation and manual entry even easier. | Learn more about how to effortlessly automate data entry in Google Sheets using Fill with Gemini.

Faster performance and doubled cell limits in Google Sheets

We’re committed to continuously improving Sheets to ensure it is a powerful, responsive, and scalable spreadsheet tool for your needs. To that end, we’re announcing significant performance improvements across the entire Sheets experience, especially for larger data sets, making it faster than ever to import, analyze, and manage your data. | Learn more about the faster performance and doubled cell limits in Google Sheets.

Ask Gemini in Drive now generally available

In March, we announced a beta for Ask Gemini in Drive. This feature is now generally available and has started rolling out to eligible Google Workspace and Google AI plans. | Learn more about how to ask Gemini in Drive now generally available.

AI Overviews in Drive now generally available

In March, we announced a beta for AI Overviews in Drive. This feature is now generally available and has started rolling out to eligible Google Workspace and Google AI plans. | Learn more about the AI Overviews in Drive now generally available.

Create custom branded avatars in Google Vids with Nano Banana 2

You can now brand your custom avatars in Google Vids by uploading a logo of your choice and using the power of Nano Banana 2 to refine how it appears on screen. You now have the creative control to ensure your AI-generated presenters align with your organization's visual identity. | Learn more about how to create custom branded avatars in Google Vids with Nano Banana 2.

Search faster and smarter with AI Overviews in Gmail search

With AI Overviews in Gmail search, you can now ask natural language questions in Gmail’s search bar and get concise summaries and answers without digging through emails. | Learn more about how to search faster and smarter with AI Overviews in Gmail search.

Introducing data import: An easier, faster, and higher-fidelity migration to Google Workspace at no additional tool cost

We are excited to announce the general availability of our new Google Workspace data migration tool for enterprises: Data import. | Learn more about the new Data import: An easier, faster, and higher-fidelity migration to Google Workspace at no additional tool cost.

Use your Gems in your Google Workspace Studio flows

We are integrating Gems into Google Workspace Studio as a step that you can add to your flows. | Learn more about how to Use your Gems in your Google Workspace Studio flows.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.
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We are integrating Gems into Google Workspace Studio as a step that you can add to your flows.

The Ask a Gem step allows you to have your flows send a prompt to private Gems to automate tasks like creating summaries or writing documents. You can use any Gem with Drive files in its knowledge base (Gems with Google Photos or other file types will not appear in Studio).

Use the Ask a Gem step to send prompts to Gems

Getting started

Note: Through June 1, 2026, Workspace customers have promotional access to higher limits for Workspace Studio, allowing users to experiment with Studio features. Per-user usage limits will apply after that date.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • AI Add-ons: AI Expanded Access*; AI Ultra Access*; Google AI Pro for Education
  • Other Add-ons: Teaching and Learning
*Starting June 1, 2026, users with AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra Access licenses will have higher limits on usage of Workspace Studio.

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For enterprises, data migrations and change management for a new productivity and collaboration platform can feel daunting and create business disruption across the organization. Not anymore. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of our new Google Workspace data migration tool for enterprises: Data import.

With data import, enterprise organizations will be able to achieve easier, faster, and higher-fidelity data migrations than before for emails, calendars, and contacts – all at no additional tool cost. Moreover, the substantial time and cost-savings to IT teams will free up their bandwidth and budget to prioritize other business critical tasks.

Data import provides:

  • Ease of use: A turnkey, scalable cloud-native solution that can be accessed and deployed directly from the admin console.
  • Quicker speeds and accuracy: Finish importing data sooner with faster migration speeds from parallelization and improved algorithms.
  • No additional tool cost to use: No additional infrastructure costs for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) during migration or licensing costs for third-party data migration tools.


Additionally, customers will have access to a new migration planning utility that will help improve their change management and data migration forecasting. The migration planning utility is available to provide migration timeline estimates and organize user data into speed-optimized batches. This offers customers zero-friction discovery and data-driven planning when undertaking large scale enterprise migrations from Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace.

Additional details

Data import and the migration planning utility are now available to accelerate enterprise-scale data migrations for Microsoft Exchange Online, with additional support for OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Teams coming soon.


Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Other Editions: Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofit

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Your inbox is full of critical information that you need to get your work done, but uncovering it shouldn't mean running endless searches just to sift through fragmented email threads. With AI Overviews in Gmail search, you can now ask natural language questions in Gmail’s search bar and get concise summaries and answers without digging through emails.


In the Gmail search bar, type in questions such as:

  • “What are the performance improvements Owen mentioned?”
  • “What are the milestones we agreed to for “Project Astro”?
  • “Which invoices have I already paid and which are still outstanding to Sandbox Supplies?”
  • “What were the latest comments from the UX deck?”
  • “What are the details of my upcoming trip to New York?”
You’ll get instant summaries that pull context from across multiple conversations. No more searching your inbox for scattered details—just the answers you need, right when you need them.

Note that we previously launched this feature to users with Google AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions; we’re now bringing it to business and education users with eligible licenses (see availability below).

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Consumers: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus
  • AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

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