Google Workspace

Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent at Gemini at Work 2026 on October 8. It is an enterprise agent that routes each job to either Gemini or Claude models. It is in private preview, with wider availability for select Workspace Business and Enterprise plans coming soon.

Anthropic has released the Claude for Google Workspace add-on in public beta, placing a Claude sidebar inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. It is available to all paid Claude users through the Google Workspace Marketplace, and includes an "ask before edits" preview mode.

Google has upgraded Gemini's side panel in Workspace apps so every instance—Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, and Chat—now shares the same feature set. Users can create documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks or schedule meetings from any app rather than switching to the app that originally hosted that function.

Google Workspace ships with Gemini's access to Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Chat, Drive, and Meet turned on by default, using real-time retrieval-augmented generation rather than stored training data. Admins can disable these 'Workspace Intelligence Sources' organization-wide through the admin.google.com console, though per-user controls remain limited.

Google is expanding access to Gemini Spark, its agentic AI assistant built on Gemini 3.5, to all Google AI Pro subscribers in the US and Google AI Ultra subscribers globally. The rollout excludes free-tier users and, for Ultra, customers in the EEA, Switzerland, the UK, and Nigeria.

Google is rolling out Ask Gemini and AI Overviews to Google Drive's Android and iOS apps. The features enable multi-turn conversations across Drive, Gmail, Chat, Calendar, and web search, available to AI Pro, Ultra, Business Standard/Plus, and Enterprise Standard/Plus subscribers in English plus 28 additional languages.

Google's Workspace Studio Flows is now available to Google AI Pro ($20/month) and Ultra ($100/month) subscribers, bringing AI-powered email filtering to Gmail. The service processes up to 2,000 emails monthly on Pro tier and 10,000 on Ultra, potentially limiting utility for high-volume users receiving thousands of messages weekly.

Google unveiled voice-based prompting for Docs, Keep, and Gmail at I/O 2026, powered by Gemini AI. The features enable document creation, note organization, and email search through spoken commands, launching this summer for Google AI Premium subscribers and Workspace business users.

Google is developing a Gemini agent for macOS that will control computers, organize files, and integrate with Google Workspace apps. Code analysis reveals features including file conversion to Google Sheets, folder organization, batch file renaming, and meeting follow-up automation.

Google is rolling out Personal Intelligence to Gemini users globally, excluding the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and UK. The opt-in feature accesses data from Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Google Photos, YouTube, Maps, and other first-party apps to provide contextual responses without additional prompting.