- You can now interact with data and create entire dashboards with Gemini in Sheets
- Google Meet’s AI resumes now extend to in-person and third-party conferencing platforms
- AI has enabled Google to make moving from Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace even faster
Google Cloud just held its biggest event yet, but with 260+ announcements across the entire portfolio at Google Cloud Next 2026, many of the smaller but no less important Google Workspace updates flew under the radar.
In a ‘one last thing’-style blog post, the company described a number of less headline-worthy improvements it’s rolling out to its Workspace online apps to make Gemini even more useful.
With the changes, Gemini shifts from a generative tool for producing new content to an agent assistant that can interact with the context of your documents and perform some functions independently.
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Starting with one of the most used Workspace apps, Sheets now allows users to analyze their data and produce dashboards more conversationally.
The company also claimed that 110 million Google Meet participants have used ‘Take Notes For Me’ in the last month – an 8.5x growth compared to last year – so it’s now making AI-generated summaries and action items available outside Meet’s four walls, including in-person meetings and calls on other platforms like Zoom and Teams.
And for organizations, Gemini Enterprise customers will be able to create brand new documents in line with their brand and requirements with the new ‘Canvas Mode’. With a verbose prompt, Gemini can pull data and context from the web and other Workspace locations to generate complete presentations and documents that are as editable as human-made.
Finally, Google Cloud’s stance against Microsoft didn’t go amiss at its annual conference. After previously filing a complaint about Microsoft’s cloud practices, Google now says it’s up to 5x faster for M365 customers to migrate to Workspace thanks to some under-the-hood interoperability improvements like an AI-powered Office macro converter.
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