September 12, 2025
Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - September 12, 2025
Previous announcements
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.
Get real-time push notifications for reactions on your messages in Google Chat
Chat users can now receive real-time push notifications for reactions on their messages. This can help users stay on top of reactions on their messages and avoid missing potentially important updates. | Learn more about notifications for reactions in Chat.
Chat users can now receive real-time push notifications for reactions on their messages. This can help users stay on top of reactions on their messages and avoid missing potentially important updates. | Learn more about notifications for reactions in Chat.
Public notebooks in partnership with OpenStax
We've partnered with OpenStax, the leading provider of free, peer-reviewed textbooks, to transform some of their most popular academic titles into interactive Notebooks. These ready-to-use Notebooks are designed to help high school and college students turn passive reading into active learning. With content curated from subjects like Biology, Psychology, and Business, you can instantly engage with complex material and accelerate your understanding. | Learn more about the new interactive Notebooks.
Available in closed beta: enhancing security outcomes with the Shared Signals Framework
The Shared Signals Framework (SSF) is a community supported initiative of the OpenID Foundation, focused on developing and maintaining a standardized protocol for cross-system communication between security platforms to share security insights and events. To support the SSF initiative, Google Workspace is implementing a SSF Receiver to ingest Continuous Access Evaluation Profile (CAEP) signals. | Learn more about the beta for shared signals framework.
Understand changes more quickly with condensed version history in Sheets
We are introducing a new condensed view for version history in Google Sheets. By default, Sheets will now only show rows with cells that had changes in the selected version. The condensed version history will help users identify relevant edits to the sheet more quickly and efficiently. | Learn more about the new condensed version history here.
We are introducing a new condensed view for version history in Google Sheets. By default, Sheets will now only show rows with cells that had changes in the selected version. The condensed version history will help users identify relevant edits to the sheet more quickly and efficiently. | Learn more about the new condensed version history here.
Educators and students can now create Flashcards, Quizzes and new Reports in NotebookLM
NotebookLM can now turn your documents into interactive flashcards and quizzes, creating a personalized study session, generated in seconds and grounded only in your source materials. Prep for exams, master a new skill, and share it with anyone with a simple link. | Learn more about the Flashcards, Quizzes, and Reports.
See file summaries on the Home page in Google Drive
You can now see Gemini summaries directly within the suggested files surfaced on the Home page in Google Drive. These summaries will show on select Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDFs in your suggested file list. You can click the “See more” button that appears on hover to view a more in-depth analysis, or ask Gemini follow up questions about the file in the Gemini side panel. | Learn more about the new sumaries in Google Drive here.