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Meta rolled out a standalone Mac desktop app for Meta AI aimed at business users, adding screen-sharing, Google Workspace integration, analytics, and advertising tools to help craft posts and campaigns. The app remains free to use, but some advanced features may be rate-limited to Meta One subscribers, part of Meta’s broader push to link AI tools with business workflows and subscriptions.
Meta is launching a Mac app for its Meta AI chatbot that can share your screen, offer suggestions, answer questions, and generate content from what’s on your screen, with dictation across apps. The app also connects to Google Workspace and can tie into Instagram and Facebook ad campaigns, enabling it to pull data to create decks, docs, and spreadsheets and handle recurring tasks, signaling a shift toward a desktop productivity assistant to compete with rivals like Google Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude.
Anthropic says Claude Cowork access is now available on mobile and web for all paid accounts, and Google Workspace connectors for Claude can now send Gmail messages and manage Google Drive files.
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash, pitched as its most capable 'workhorse' AI. In a hands‑on test, Tom's Guide’s Amanda Caswell used Gemini Spark, now powered by 3.7 Flash, to organize life across Gmail and Drive by running a 30‑day life‑admin prompt, showing it can consolidate files, draft emails, update documents and link back to original sources while outlining a broader plan. The demonstration highlighted strong multi‑step planning and tool usage but noted gaps (e.g., unnamed docs, missed emails) and that it isn’t flawless yet. Overall, 3.7 Flash elevates Gemini’s Workspace automation, with caveats about access and accuracy.
Google's Gemini can generate, edit, and refine diagrams and infographics directly inside Google Docs using natural-language prompts. It creates context-aware visuals that align with the document, supports adjusting aspect ratios and styling, and can batch-insert graphics across long texts. The feature requires Workspace smart features and is rolling out from July 28, 2026 across Rapid and Scheduled Release domains to Business, Education, and AI Pro customers.
Elton Jones shows how Google Gemini can be embedded in Google Workspace and demonstrates seven prompts—The Inbox Tamer, The Unread Inbox Triage, The Thread Decoder, The Cross-Referencing Meeting Prep, The Meeting Prepper, The Brain-Dump to Structured Outline, and The Brutal Editor—to automate tasks in Gmail and Docs. By connecting Gemini via Settings > Connected Apps and using the @ mention to summon it inside Gmail/Docs, you can quickly summarize emails, triage unread messages, draft documents, outline projects, and polish text, effectively turning Gemini into a productive workspace assistant.
Google’s new Workspace ad imagines the Founding Fathers using Gemini AI to draft the Declaration of Independence, featuring Ben Franklin texting Jefferson to check a draft, AI transcribing notes into a Google Doc, Gemini coordinating a meeting, taking notes during a Google Meet call, and a turkey-seal created by Nano Banana; The Verge calls the campaign ill-advised, corny, and simply dumb, arguing AI isn’t a credible tool for political organizing or historical writing.
Google Workspace's Gemini AI experienced a service disruption with 'Something went wrong' errors across Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides on web, macOS, iOS, and Android; Google rolled out mitigations and has seen early signs of recovery, but no root-cause ETA yet.
Google Workspace launches 'Suggest File Moves' in Drive, powered by Gemini, which analyzes your files to propose moves into existing folders or new ones. Users review and approve changes in an interactive dashboard before anything is moved. The rollout is global in English across major plans, with a promo lifting usage caps through July 15, 2026; after that, per-user daily limits apply.
After a month with the MacBook Neo (Apple’s budget Mac powered by the A18 Pro and 8GB RAM), Bridget Carey finds it handles daily tasks well, is light with good battery and repairable, and has a stylish pink design, but opening around 64 Safari tabs with multiple Google Workspace tools triggers memory pressure and occasional lag; it remains a strong starter/secondary laptop while suggesting workflow tweaks to avoid slowdowns.
Engadget explains how to disable Google's Gemini AI across Google Workspace: first turn off smart features in Gmail (which also disables them in Chat and Meet), then adjust Workspace smart-feature settings; completely removing Gemini in an organization may require admin action, and turning off Gemini can affect basic features like spelling and inbox categorization, so you can selectively disable Workspace features while keeping some AI helpers in other Google apps.
Google has rolled out native client-side end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Gmail’s Android and iOS apps for Workspace customers with Enterprise Plus licenses (and related add-ons). Users can compose and read E2EE emails directly in the Gmail app, while recipients on other services can read them in a web browser; keys are user-controlled and stored outside Google’s servers, with admin setup via the CSE Admin Console.
Google is rolling out Gemini-powered features across Docs, Sheets, and Slides that can pull data from your emails and files to fill spreadsheets, generate slides, and summarize information, while showing source citations and giving admins control; the beta rollout is limited to US users with certain Google Workspace and AI Ultra/Pro subscriptions.
Google expands Gemini across Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides to auto-create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations using context from your emails, files, and web. New AI tools let you draft and refine text, stylize slides, generate full sheets from prompts, and search with an AI overview and Ask Gemini prompts. Rollout starts for Google AI Ultra/Pro, with a gradual English-only rollout this spring and an opt‑out via Smart Features.
Google has unveiled a non-official Google Workspace CLI that bundles all Workspace APIs into a single command-line tool to streamline AI integrations, including OpenClaw. It aims to simplify connecting AI agents to Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and more, and even offers an MCP server option, but it isn’t officially supported and could evolve or break existing workflows. Setup requires a Google account with Workspace access, OAuth credentials, and Node.js.