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Google Workspace Studio has expanded its support to include seven new languages. In addition to English, Workspace Studio now offers full capabilities in:

  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, Teaching and Learning
  • AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

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We're making it simpler to join large Google Meet events. When an adaptive meeting reaches its maximum capacity for meeting contributors (those with camera, microphone, and screen sharing privileges), any additional users attempting to join the main call are automatically redirected to join the live stream instead. In the live stream they can still interact using reactions, chat, polls and Q&A. What interactive features are available depends on what the host allows in the Host controls settings.

Users that try to join the main call while only invited to the live stream will also be redirected automatically. 

This means a smoother, seamless viewing experience for everyone attending your largest meetings. It doesn't change access settings to meetings or live streams. The host still remains in control over who can take part in meetings and live streams, and which features are available for them to use. The new redirect will be working for any meetings hosts make adaptive under Meeting Access.

Participants can still also join the live stream directly by clicking the separate live stream link in calendar events.

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This feature is automatically turned on for any meeting hosts make adaptive in Meet Settings > Host controls > Meeting access. There is no setting for meeting attendees. Visit the Help Center to learn more about adaptive meeting settings.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Plus
  • Education Add-ons: Teaching and Learning

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We’re introducing enhancements to the Google Meet starter step in Google Workspace Studio. As part of this, the step When a meeting transcript is ready has been renamed When meeting outputs are ready. This step now allows you to decide if the workflow should run when either meeting transcripts or Notes by Gemini are ready. Previously, only meeting transcripts would trigger the flow to run.

In addition, you can now select up to 100 different meetings to trigger your flow whereas in the past you could only select one meeting. This update allows you to easily automate the same process for multiple events.

Use the updated “When meeting outputs are ready” starter step

With these enhancements, you gain greater precision in managing which meeting artifacts and which specific meetings activate your workflow.

Block time on your calendar
We’re also making it possible for Workspace Studio flows to block time on your calendar.

You can use the “Block time” step with “Ask Gemini” or “Extract” steps to automate use cases like adding a reminder block on your calendar for an appointment confirmation or required training you received in email, or to schedule focus time. The event the flow creates is just for you and no guests can be added.

Use the “Block time” step to create an event for you in your calendar

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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Professionals are using Gemini in Chrome to accelerate their daily workflows—from summarizing complex reports to drafting client emails and analyzing market data.

Until now, repeating a high-value AI task meant re-entering the same prompt every time you navigated to a new page or document. To streamline your workday, we’re launching skills in Chrome for eligible Workspace users. This feature allows you to save your most effective prompts and run them instantly with a single click, no matter where you are on the web.

By turning your proven prompts into reusable skills, you can focus less on prompt engineering and more on high-impact work.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability 

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus; Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education
  • Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

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We’re introducing a new feature that allows administrators to require explicit consent from meeting participants before automatic note-taking, recording, and/or transcription begins. With this update, admins can ensure that participants on supported devices must actively agree to be recorded, be transcribed, or have notes enabled.

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the domain, OU, or group level. You can find these settings in the Admin console Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Dialog showing consent required for meeting attendee

  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

These editions include consent for notes, recordings, and transcripts:

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

These editions include consent for transcripts and recordings:

  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter
  • Education: Education Plus
  • Education Add-ons: Teaching and Learning

These editions include consent for recording:

  • Other Editions: Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials

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Learn about more Google Workspace launches

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