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Google launched deep Gemini integration across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. Key capabilities: "Help me create" in Docs generates full first drafts from connected files with style-matching; Sheets builds entire spreadsheets from natural language with "Fill with Gemini" for auto-populating cells using Google Search data; Drive gets "AI Overview" search summaries and cross-document Q&A. Available to AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. This is the most comprehensive workspace AI integration from any platform and directly threatens every third-party AI tool that sits on top of Google Workspace data. Google Blog
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Google Canvas in AI Mode is now available to all US Search users — 75M+ daily users can describe an app and Canvas generates functional code using Gemini 3, grounded in live web data, with zero IDE required. Simultaneously, Google released an open-source Workspace CLI with bui...
The CLI (~27K stars) wraps Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, and Admin in one tool, dynamically generated from the Google Discovery Service. It ships AI agent skills out of the box. For builders, this is a first-party scriptable surface for wiring Workspace into agen...
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Anthropic shipped this August 18 alongside Cowork reaching mobile and web for all paid accounts. Claude can now send Gmail messages and manage Drive files, not just read them. (The Verge) That's a threat-model change, not a convenience change. A prompt-injected email is now on...
Willison's August 13 release adds Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite plus gemini-embedding-2 and -001, rebuilding on LLM 0.32's structured message and streaming APIs so reasoning, tool calls and results emit as typed stream events while preserving Gemini thought si...
Search and draft emails, manage labels and threads, read and write docs, update spreadsheet cells, create calendar events. Install from the Customize page or Marketplace. This widens the prompt-injection blast radius considerably: a coding agent that reads your inbox is a codi...
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