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The Neat Board series (32, 50, and Pro) and the Logitech Rally Board 65 are now certified for Google Meet as the first Android-based all-in-one devices. They package up and deliver a modern Meet experience in stylish form factors ideal for simple deployment in traditional meeting rooms, open spaces, personal offices, phone booths, and even portable solutions.

Equipped with touch displays, these devices can be used for both traditional video meetings and interactive whiteboarding via the Figma, Lucid, and Miro add-ons.


Neat Board Series Pro, 50 and 32




Logitech Rally Board 65

Getting started

  • Admins: The Logitech Rally Bar 65 and the Neat Board 32, 50, and Pro are available for order starting today through authorized partners. Firmware updates enabling native Google Meet support will begin rolling out immediately.
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices

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Third-party whiteboarding add-ons for Google Meet will be available for room hardware based on Android. As all-in-one devices with touchscreens become certified for Meet, users will be able to whiteboard on them to share ideas, brainstorm, and work on projects together in real-time meetings, wherever they are.

The following third-party whiteboard software will be available on these devices:

  • Figma
  • Lucidspark
  • Miro
Participants who join Meet calls on the web or via the mobile app will be able to view and interact in whiteboard sessions by installing the corresponding add-on. Add-ons can be found in the Workspace Marketplace along with pricing and terms from each third-party vendor.



Add-ons for Google Meet are available from the Workspace Marketplace

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices

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We are expanding the capabilities of Gemini in Google Chat by adding support for several new languages when refining message drafts. In addition to English, users can now use Gemini to polish their messages in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. This update allows a broader range of global users to improve the clarity and professional tone of their communications within Chat.

By leveraging Gemini to adjust wording, grammar, and spelling, users can communicate more effectively across different languages and regions. This is particularly helpful for teams working in multilingual environments or for individuals composing messages in a second language, ensuring that the intended meaning is conveyed accurately and confidently.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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Form creators now have more options for header images in Google Forms. Previously, creators could only use a pre-selected theme, upload an image, or choose an image from Google Photos. In addition to these options, they can now choose an image from Google Drive or Google Images or use a URL. This makes it easier to add an appropriate and compelling header image to your form.



User chooses a Google Drive image as the header image for a Google Form

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

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Administrators can now apply a global context-aware access (CAA) policy to all SAML applications within their organization. This update introduces a default assignment that serves as a universal security baseline, automatically protecting any SAML-based app that does not have a specific policy already assigned. By establishing this "secure-by-default" posture, IT teams can help protect internal data and third-party SaaS tools as new applications are integrated into their ecosystem.

This global control significantly reduces the administrative burden of managing security for applications at scale. Instead of manually configuring rules for every individual SAML app, administrators can set a single policy to cover their entire environment. Specific application-level policies will still take precedence, allowing for granular control where needed while the global policy acts as a reliable safety net.

These default policies support both Monitor and Active modes, providing flexibility in how security requirements are phased in. Detailed audit logs will capture these enforcement events, and remediation messages help end users understand how to resolve access issues independently.

Admins can configure CAA policies for all SAML apps in the Admin console under Security > Context-aware Access > General settings

Admins can configure CAA policies for all SAML apps in the Admin console under Security > Context-aware Access > General settings.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education: Education Standard and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Standard and Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium

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The latest version of the Datadog app for Google Chat allows you to integrate Datadog into your Google Chat workflows more seamlessly and stay on top of critical infrastructure without leaving the flow of team collaboration. Newly added features include: 

Link previews
Cut and paste a widget from a Datadog dashboard and see the chart inside Google Chat.

Image of link preview generated by Datadog



Improved notification set-up
Link your Workspace domain to Datadog and you’ll be able to easily create Google Chat notification handles from within Datadog.

Image of Datadog setup and notification



Incident management
Declare incidents with a command from Google Chat, and automatically create spaces in Google Chat to centralize conversations about an incident.

GIF showing example of incident management with Datadog in Chat


Note that a Datadog license is required to use the Datadog app for Chat.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts (Datadog license required)

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Google Workspace customers can now deploy the Now Assist Virtual Agent for Google Chat integration directly from the Google Workspace Marketplace. This update simplifies the deployment process for Workspace and ServiceNow administrators, allowing them to provide employees with centralized access to support and automated workflows within their primary communication tool more easily.

The Now Assist Virtual Agent allows users to perform routine ServiceNow tasks and requests without leaving Google Chat. Individuals can get answers from knowledge base articles, create support tickets, check the status of existing requests, and order new items. This integration reduces the need to switch between applications, helping users maintain focus and resolve issues more efficiently.

With Now Assist, users have a contextual conversational experience that can initiate AI Agents to further automate complex workflows and requests.




Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. To utilize this feature, customers must have both ServiceNow and Google Chat. Note that Now Assist capabilities require an additional license from ServiceNow.

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We’re excited to announce the beta release of a new, simplified way for very small and small-sized businesses to import their users from Microsoft to Google Workspace when setting up their Workspace account for the first time.

This new feature allows these businesses and educational institutions to automatically copy their existing Microsoft users into Google Workspace. Once you connect to Microsoft, the system automatically identifies users in your Microsoft account and prepares to add them in your new Google Workspace account. This feature significantly reduces the time and effort of switching from Microsoft and helps you get your organization up and running in no time.

You can complete the import in a single click after connecting to your Microsoft business account.




Additional details

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature will be available in the setup process for Google Workspace. Once you’ve verified your domain and activated your email records, you will find an option to import your users from Microsoft to Google Workspace before completing the setup. Visit the Help Center to learn more about importing business data during setup.
  • End users: This feature is for admins only.

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; Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Individual; Nonprofits; Cloud Identity Free and Premium
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning; Endpoint Education

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We’re integrating NotebookLM into Google Workspace Studio. This enhancement lets you use your existing notebooks as an AI knowledge source for your automations. You can use the new Ask NotebookLM step to generate grounded responses based on the insights, summaries, and research in your notebooks.



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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We’re expanding the availability of Assignments LTI™ and Gemini LTI™ to include Moodle, joining our existing support for Canvas and Schoology. Gemini LTI™ brings Google AI tools like the Gemini app and NotebookLM directly into third-party Learning Management Systems (LMS), enabling students and teachers to get in-the-moment assistance to enhance their teaching and learning experiences.




Assignments LTI™ allows educators to securely distribute, analyze, and grade student work while checking for authenticity through originality reports. While the core functionality remains consistent across platforms, Moodle administrators will benefit from a streamlined setup process by using the LTI Dynamic Registration specification to register these tools.




This expansion helps educational institutions centralize access to Google’s AI tools, including features like content-grounded notebooks and automated FAQ support for students. For educators, Assignments LTI™ continues to facilitate efficient grading and the use of originality reports to help ensure authentic work. Students can also use the Gemini LTI™ integration to access course-specific guidance, generate audio overviews of materials with NotebookLM, and engage with training resources designed for the safe and productive use of AI in their studies.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

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You can already convert your Google Slides content into Google Vids, and use Gemini to generate scripts, voiceovers, and background music. Now, you can add a spokesperson to your videos using AI avatars when importing content from Slides. Avatars are dynamically inserted throughout the imported slides to make the generated Vid feel more relatable and engaging.

Turning a Slides presentation into a Vid with an avatar

Getting started

Note: Through July 1, 2026, Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher limits for adding avatars when converting presentations to Vids, allowing users to experiment with this feature. Per-user usage limits will apply after that date; we’ll provide more information in the Help Center in advance of updated usage limits going into effect.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter*, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter*, Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Plus*
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Other Editions: Nonprofits*
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning*
  • Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access
*For a limited time, at least through May 31, 2026, Business Starter, Enterprise Starter, Education Plus, Nonprofits, and Teaching and Learning add-on accounts can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn about Google Vids availability.

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As previously announced, Help me write in Gmail is evolving into an even more helpful partner that can pull in your natural voice and personalized context to get you closer to the perfect draft every time. We’ve added two new personalization enhancements:

  • Topic contextualization: The feature can now connect to Google Drive and Gmail based on your prompt. It will then use the context from these apps to automatically insert relevant information into the email draft, reducing the time you spend toggling between apps to find specific details.
  • Tone and style personalization: Help me write can also now create personalized email drafts that match the tone and style of your previously written emails.

Before and after of a generated email

With these new changes, users will save valuable time currently spent on cross-Workspace app context switching to reference correct sources, typing, copy-pasting, and formatting. Just type a short prompt, and delegate the draft writing for common use cases, including:

  • Responding to inquiries from customers and partners
  • Distributing information, documents, or materials to collaborators
  • Reporting progress, milestones, and project-related issue to leadership
  • Seeking assistance or answers from team
  • Providing or asking for feedback from peers
  • Sharing team announcements or progress reports to the organization
  • Introducing new projects
  • Exploring potential partnerships
  • Teacher-parent- communications
  • Grant proposals

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Consumer: Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

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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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We are introducing the ability to set custom, persistent instructions for Gemini in Google Docs. These instructions ensure that Gemini adapts to your style, tone, and formatting preferences without needing to repeat them in every conversation, ultimately saving you time and ensuring consistency.

Users can add instructions and rules using Gemini in the side panel of Docs such as "Always respond in bullet points," "When summarizing Docs, always include a 3 bullet points at the top."" or "Use a concise and professional tone for all my documents."

Note that users are currently limited to 1000 active instructions.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Plus
  • Consumer: Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus
  • Education Add-Ons: Google AI Pro for Education, Teaching and Learning
  • Other Add-Ons: AI Expanded Access; AI Ultra Access

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Securely managing access for generative AI and agent actions to Workspace data is easier ever than before with the new AI control center in the Admin console. This new capability gives enterprise organizations greater visibility and control, especially for teams with stringent data security and compliance requirements.

With the AI control center, admins will feel empowered to confidently deploy and adopt AI in their organizations through

  • A single pane of glass that provides a centralized view of security and governance settings for generative AI and agent actions
  • More granular security, governance, and auditing capabilities for Gemini and agentic solutions accessing Workspace data
  • Additional integrations with other 1P and 3P AI apps to manage AI access and controls to Workspace data
Additional details
The AI control center has four core modules, each addressing key areas of interest for administrators.

  1. Monitor and control AI access: Provides immediate visibility into who is using AI in your organization. It features direct links to Gemini usage reports and core management settings for the Gemini app, Gemini for Workspace and other AI features. To start, the AI control center will show usage for Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Calendar, Chat, and the Gemini App.
  2. Manage security for AI products: Enables granular authority over specific services, such as Gemini in Meet, allowing admins to ensure every AI surface adheres to domain-specific data and security policies.
  3. Manage fundamental security: Anchors AI usage in a secure environment by surfacing foundational protections like classification labels, trust rules, and data protection rules to prevent oversharing and data leaks also when using AI.
  4. Review privacy, abuse, and compliance standards: Directs admins to Google’s guaranteed safeguards, including our "Secure by Design" architecture and the commitment that your domain's data is never used to train our models.
Throughout the AI control center, certain settings will be marked “Coming soon,” allowing admins to plan longer-term rollouts with future capabilities in mind.

Getting started

  • Admins: The AI control center is available by default in the Google Admin console under Generative AI > AI control center. No manual opt-in is required to access the dashboard. Visit the Help Center to learn more about AI control center.
  • End users: No end user action is required. This feature provides administrative visibility and control within the Admin console.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus

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Previously available in beta, client-side encryption (CSE) customers can now conduct bulk migrations of sensitive files from both cloud and on-premises data sources. This process ensures confidential content is wrapped with customer-managed keys before it's imported into Google Workspace. Using this tooling, CSE customers can decommission their legacy third-party storage while ensuring the CSE model is in place throughout the document lifecycle. The API is highly configurable, we share a generalized sample code to make deployment simple, but customers can further customize it depending on their needs.

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature will be ON by default for customers. Admins or authorized users will need to call the Drive API to leverage the feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
  • End users: There is no end-user setting in Drive for this feature.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Enterprise: Enterprise Plus
  • Education: Education Standard and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus

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