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What’s changing

We’re introducing Data Tables in NotebookLM, a new feature that helps you organize and analyze information from your sources in a structured format.

Valuable information is rarely neat. Key facts are often scattered, making manual compilation tedious.
Today, we’re making that simpler with Data Tables. NotebookLM now synthesizes your sources into clean, structured tables, ready for export to Google Sheets.

Here are some ways to use them: 

  • Prepare for exams with study tables of historical events, organized by date, key figures, and consequences.
  • Turn meeting transcripts into a clean table of action items, categorized by owner and priority. Or build a competitor comparison table analyzing pricing and strategies.
  • Streamline curriculum mapping by aligning state standards, learning objectives, and assessment criteria across your semester plan.
  • Synthesize clinical trial outcomes across multiple papers to track study years, sample sizes and statistics.



Data Tables will be available to users of all ages. 

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus
  • Google AI Pro for Education
  • Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Nonprofits

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What’s changing

We’re expanding image generation powered by Nano Banana in the Gemini app to Google Workspace users of all ages. 

This update brings a highly requested and powerful creative tool to younger users, helping them visualize ideas and bring their work to life. For example, a student working on a presentation can now ask Gemini to "create an image of a cell's mitochondria for my biology project" or "generate a picture of a public square in ancient Rome."

Expanding access to this feature provides a more consistent creative experience for all Workspace users.

Users under 18 years old can improve upon their generated images with follow-ups, but cannot edit them directly or use uploaded images for image generation. To prepare to bring image generation to younger users, we conducted rigorous testing specific to users under 18. We’ve trained Gemini to recognize areas that are inappropriate to youth, and implemented safety features and guardrails, including content filters, to help prevent unsafe content, such as illegal or age-gated substances, from appearing in its responses to these users.  As a reminder, these filters aren't perfect, so please grant access as appropriate for different age levels. Teachers and staff should continue to help students use Gemini responsibly.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available for Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus users of all ages

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To support more granular incident investigations, we’re expanding the Workspace audit logging datasets available on the Admin SDK (Reports API) to include these additional datasets:

  • Admin data action logs
  • Contacts logs
  • Assignments logs
  • Directory Sync logs
  • Profile logs
  • Graduation logs
  • LDAP logs
  • Meet hardware logs
  • Takeout logs
  • Tasks logs
  • Cloud search logs
  • Access evaluation logs
  • Data migration logs
Additionally, the Reports API now supports in-depth filtering on resource details. You can now filter by labels and resources from your audit logs, allowing for fetching more granular logs. To learn more about this in detail, you can check out the activities list API documentation.

Granular audit logs are critical to helping organizations investigate cybersecurity incidents and understand their data usage. The changes announced today expand the depth of analysis that can be performed.

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Specifically designed for organizations with high demand research needs, Google AI Ultra for Business, an add-on plan for Workspace customers, provides teams with the highest-tier access to Gemini models, unparalleled feature limits, and the capacity to handle the most intricate models. Now, Google AI Ultra for Business users can access an enhanced NotebookLM experience. NotebookLM, a research and thinking partner, gives you: 

  • Highest access to Gemini’s models
  • Highest feature limits for the features you know and love like Audio & Video Overviews, Slide Decks, and more
  • Largest notebook size with the most number of sources per notebook
  • Priority access to features like the Long option for Slide Decks and the removal of watermarks on Slide Decks and Infographics
Refer to Turn NotebookLM on or off for users for a detailed overview.

Getting started

  • Admins: NotebookLM is ON by default and can be disabled at the domain, OU, or group level. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Google AI Ultra for Business licensed users will see the “Ultra” badge in the upper right corner in NotebookLM. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

  • Available now

Availability

  • Google AI Ultra for Business add-on

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What’s changing

Introducing Gemini 3 Flash, our latest model with frontier intelligence built for speed, in the Gemini app. It delivers next-generation intelligence at lightning speeds.

Built on the foundation of Gemini 3, our most intelligent model, 3 Flash is designed to get answers now, make light work of daily tasks, and connect to the real world instantly. It delivers speed and efficiency while continuing to provide strong performance – ideal for everyday tasks that benefit from faster processing, like search, summarization, document analysis and data extraction. And it also delivers a leap in multimodal understanding, so you can ask it questions across images, audio, video, and text.

Try using Gemini 3 Flash to summarize, analyze, and extract data: 

  • “Analyze the attached project status report: provide a one-paragraph executive summary highlighting key progress and roadblocks, and extract all assigned action items, listing the item, responsible person, and deadline in a table format.”
  • “Compare the attached two research paper abstracts: summarize the core findings of each, and identify any significant contradictions or disagreements in their conclusions.”
Or for everyday planning, brainstorming, writing and studying:

  • “I want to launch a new direct to consumer coffee brand in New York. Help me ideate some names, taglines, and go-to-market strategies based on best practices to have a successful launch in a competitive market.”
  • “Turn my notes into a follow-up email to Sarah confirming what we discussed. Keep the tone professional and polite, but concise and action-oriented.”
  • "Help me outline a lesson plan for 7th-grade history on the Roman Republic, focusing on primary source analysis and project-based learning."
  • "Create a 10-question practice quiz on the concepts covered in the attached notes for my upcoming physics exam."
Gemini 3 Flash can be accessed in the Gemini app by selecting “Fast” for quick answers and “Thinking” to help solve more complex problems faster. Gemini 3 Pro is also available as “Pro” in the model picker and remains the best choice for advanced math and code.














Getting started

  • Admins: The Gemini app and related in-app tools are controlled by the Generative AI settings in the Workspace Admin console. The Gemini 3 Flash model is subject to these existing controls. Visit the Help Center for more information on turning the Gemini app on or off.
  • End users: End users who have access to the Gemini app will receive the new Gemini 3 Flash model update automatically.

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

  • Business Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus
  • Google AI Pro for Education
  • Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Nonprofits
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Earlier this year we launched AI avatars in Google Vids to streamline video creation, and today we’re excited to announce that our avatars are now powered by Veo 3.1, Google’s state-of-the-art video generation model. 

This upgrade is so powerful that in evaluations, people prefer Vids avatars five times more often than those on other platforms. Now our avatars are: 

  • More realistic and natural: Avatars deliver heightened expression, smoother lip-syncing, and steadier framing, resulting in a truly professional look.
  • Faster to create: Generate high-quality avatars faster than ever, at no additional cost.
   

Avatars help improve viewer watch time and engagement without the need for cameras or re-recording. Use avatars in scenarios like:

  1. Training videos: Upskill your workforce with guided speaking.
  2. Internal announcements: Announce updates with a consistent character.
  3. Custom support walkthroughs: Quickly make engaging walkthroughs to solve common user issues.

Vids avatar creation experience

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
Note: Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher usage limits of Veo 3.1 avatars in Vids for at least 30 days, allowing users to experiment with these features. Per-user usage limits will apply afterward; we’ll provide more information in a future update prior to any changes.

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace: 

  • Business Starter **, Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Starter **, Standard and Plus 
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Nonprofits**
  • Education Plus** and Teaching and Learning add-on**
Also available to:

  • Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • Google AI Pro for Education
**For a limited time, at least through May 31, 2026, Business Starter, Enterprise Starter, Nonprofit, Education Plus, and Teaching and Learning add-on accounts can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn about Google Vids availability. 

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What’s changing

We’re introducing a new setting in Google Chat that gives users more control over who can invite them to 1:1 conversations and spaces. While the default setting allows invitations from anyone, users can now choose to restrict incoming requests to known senders only. This restriction can be done for 1:1 conversations, spaces, or both. 

If a user restricts this setting, they can only be contacted by someone outside their organization if they’ve previously interacted with that person or if the person is in their contacts. Invitations from users who do not meet this criteria will be sent to spam. 

Note that this setting has no impact on messages between users of the same domain; these invitations will not be sent to spam regardless of whether the users have had prior conversations. 

Getting started

Block messages from unknown senders in Google Chat

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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We’re excited to introduce the new Feeds app for  Google Chat. This app makes it simple for teams to bring important, real-time external updates—such as news, blog posts, and industry research from any Atom or RSS feed—directly into their group conversations and spaces.

The goal is to eliminate the need for context switching to monitor external information sources. By connecting an RSS/Atom feed, new posts are automatically sent to a designated space in Chat, keeping all team members up-to-date in the context of ongoing project discussions.

Key features include:

  • Automatic content delivery: New posts from the subscribed feed are delivered directly as messages in Chat.
  • Add multiple subscriptions: Users can add and manage multiple feeds using the app settings panel.
  • Configurable by space: Subscriptions are managed per-space, and only the user who created a subscription can edit or delete it.

Updates from your subscriptions are posted directly in the conversation of your choice

Manage your subscriptions via a command in the integration menu

Manage your subscriptions via a command in the integration menu

Getting started

Rollout pace

  • Available now

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers that have enabled Chat apps in their domain, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

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What’s changing

Presenters will now be able to share stereo sound when presenting content with stereo audio in Google Meet. During virtual meetings, presenters often share content with audio, such as music before a meeting starts, videos for review or discussion during the meeting, and more. Now, if the audio is originally in stereo (with separate left and right audio channels), the stereo sound will apply to the audio presented via Meet as well. 

This can help make a more natural and immersive listening experience, improving the quality of the sound for all attendees. 

Additional details:

  • Only users on the web will be able to send stereo audio.
  • Only Chrome and Firefox browsers will be able to receive stereo audio.

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature will be on by default, there is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This feature will be on by default when applicable content is shared via screen sharing. Visit the Help Center to learn more about presenting in Google Meet. 

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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What’s changing

We are introducing Silent Test mode, a new offering that lets you run a large-scale eCDN (Enterprise Content Delivery Network) test with your users and devices, across your entire network, while minimizing any risk of impacting the viewer experience.

Google Meet eCDN provides peer-assisted media delivery for Meet live streams, saving up to 95% of the original bandwidth. To optimize bandwidth savings, administrators may want to fine-tune peering policies and custom rules to match their network topology. Silent Test is a risk-minimizing mode that helps admins validate those configurations by running large-scale eCDN tests with real user profiles and devices across large or global networks.

When Silent Test mode is turned on, Meet eCDN will run in a full simulation mode during large meetings and live streams. Live stream clients collect and report real-world data and statistics on how peer-based delivery through eCDN would perform, while showing viewers media that is directly served from Google's servers. This allows admins to quickly and with low risk test various configuration options.

In Silent Test mode clients will:

  • Stream media directly from Google's servers and use it for viewer playback
  • Discover and connect to peers to form Peering Groups
  • Operate in their client role (Root, Leaf or Branch) in a full P2P topology
  • Exchange actual media for simulation purposes and to generate real-world network load
  • Report back any connectivity bandwidth issues between peers
  • Collect all statistics in Meet Quality Tool and clearly mark metrics from Silent Tests

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature will be OFF by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to turn on Silent Test Mode. Complete the initial setup for Meet eCDN before turning on Silent Test mode. Learn more about how to set up Meet eCDN.
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.
Accelerate validation of Google Meet eCDN configuration at scale with Silent Test Mode

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace editions that allow live streams to be hosted:

  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Education Plus

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What’s changing

Earlier this year, data classification labels for Gmail became generally available. Admins can use this feature to classify and audit email content according to organizational guidelines (“Sensitive,” “Confidential,” etc.) and apply policies, such as data loss prevention (DLP) rules, to protect sensitive information in email messages.

We have expanded this functionality to include the ability to create a DLP rule that adds a header or footer message to email messages. Critically, header and footer messages will be shown to users outside of your domain, which helps ensure external users are aware of the sensitivity of the message and any handling requirements. DLP rules are applied to outbound messages from your domain based on how you have configured the rule scope and conditions. As a reminder, the actual classification label is only visible to recipients in your domain.

Admins can customize the information shown in the header or footer message, including links to further information on handling information. Headers and footers are visible on all device types, both within and outside of your domain.

Selecting “Add footer message” when creating a rule

Selecting “Add footer message” when creating a rule

Once the email is sent, the banner will appear in the body of the email.

Once the email is sent, the banner will appear in the body of the email

For more information on data classification labels for Gmail, please refer to our previous announcement.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Data loss prevention rules with labels as a condition or labels as an action are available to:

  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade
  • Frontline Standard and Plus
  • Cloud Identity Premium (with Workspace plan that includes Gmail)

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What’s changing

We are extending multi-party approvals (MPA) to Google Vault. Last year, we launched MPA to protect customers from malicious actors taking sensitive admin actions by requiring that one admin must approve certain actions initiated by another.

Going forward, admins can configure multi-party approvals for the following sensitive Google Vault actions:

  • Google Vault: create export: Requiring approval before a search query can be exported.
When enabled, if an admin attempts to perform these actions in the Vault interface, they will see a "Multi-party approval required" prompt. The action will not be executed until a separate, authorized administrator reviews and approves the request within the Admin console.


Vault admins have access to highly sensitive actions, including the ability to search and export specific sensitive user data or large amounts of data across an entire domain.

Multi-party approval adds an extra layer of security for these sensitive actions by ensuring no sensitive action happens in a silo and, most importantly, helps prevent unauthorized or accidental changes from being made. This dual-authorization mechanism significantly reduces the risk of unauthorized or malicious actions, such as a bad actor attempting to exfiltrate confidential information or perform unapproved data deletions.

Additional details

  • Request workflow: Once a request is submitted, approvers (super admins or delegated admins with the multi-party approval role) receive an email notification.
  • Expiration: Requests expire after three days if not approved.
  • Granular control: Admins can choose to enable MPA specifically for Vault actions without enforcing it on other settings, or vice versa, via the Multi-party approval settings page.
  • Delegation: Super admins can delegate the responsibility of approving these requests to other leaders using the "Multi-party approval" system role.
  • API: Multi-party approval will not be required for exports triggered via the API and should not impact downstream automation via the API.

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature is available for eligible Workspace customers with two or more super admin accounts. Multi-party approval for Vault exports is OFF by default and can be turned on in the Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

Available to Google Workspace

  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Education Standard and Plus

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What’s happening

In order to help organizations, particularly those in the financial services industry, meet strict regulatory archiving requirements, today we are introducing Google Meet Compliance Recording, a new feature that can be enabled by administrators to automatically record meetings and capture transcripts for specific users or groups requiring regulatory monitoring by a registered organization. This feature helps financial firms comply with communication retention and supervision rules mandated by the SEC, FINRA, and the CFTC. It enables firms to retain, monitor, and store digital communications in the required format to adhere to specific regulations like FINRA Rule 3170 and CFTC 17 CFR 1.31. This solution can also be used for other applications, including other global financial services compliance regimes (MiFID II, etc), and for regulatory requirements in other industries like healthcare, public sector, and more. This solution is available as part of the Assured Controls add-on. 

In this article, we will refer to users who benefit from the solution as “regulated users”. This can include any persons who need to be monitored to comply with regulatory requirements; registered broker/dealers, compliance officers, broader employees who communicate with the former groups, and more.

New Google Meet Compliance Recording feature

New Google Meet Compliance Recording feature

Why this matters

  • Meet regulatory requirements: When compliance recording is turned on for a regulated user, their Meet meetings are automatically recorded, and transcripts are captured. Both the recordings and transcripts are stored in a WORM (write once, read many) compliant Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket with appropriate retention policies, ensuring immutable records for regulatory archiving.
  • Enable collaboration features: Historically, regulated entities had to disable several valuable collaboration features in Meet (like chat and screen sharing) to comply with SEC rules. This new framework solves that by automatically creating unalterable records of the recording and transcript when a regulated user joins a call, preserving the standard Meet experience for both participants with the feature turned on or off.
  • User experience: All call participants will have an uninterrupted experience, with the assurance that regulated user communications are automatically archived for regulatory purposes.

How compliance recording works

Compliance recording is automatic and cannot be disabled by participants once the recording starts.

  • Visibility: All meeting participants will see a Compliance badge displayed when a regulated user is present. This badge cannot be turned off. A notification is also shown on the pre-meeting screen on the web and when the recording starts.
  • Storage and Sharing: The recordings and transcripts are not automatically shared with attendees, attached to Google Calendar events, or sent via email notifications to users. They are for compliance archiving only.
  • Limitations:
    • Users cannot access these compliance recordings; they must record the meeting themselves if they want a personal copy.
    • As with existing Meet recordings, compliance recordings are limited to a maximum of 8 hours, after which regulated users might be removed from the meeting.
    • The recording will not capture content in Breakout Rooms when regulated users join them.
  • Audio/Video Options: Admins can choose to record audio only or audio and video.

Getting started

  • Admins: The compliance recording setting is off by default. This setting can be applied at the organizational unit (OU) or configuration group level to target only your regulated users. This feature is tied to the license, so only users with an eligible add-on license will be subject to these measures. 
  • End users: No action is required for end users. The recording and transcription process for compliance is automatic and transparent to the user, except for the in-meeting notification and the permanent compliance badge.

Rollout pace

  • Available now

Availability

  • Available for users with the Google Workspace Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on license

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What’s happening

Google Voice is introducing call queuing for ring groups.

Currently, when all members of a ring group are busy, incoming calls are often sent to voicemail or, in some cases, disconnected by the carrier. With this update, when a caller dials a ring group, they will be automatically placed on hold in a queue to wait for the next available person.

This new feature allows administrators to customize several aspects of the caller experience, including:

  • Music and periodic announcements to be played while callers are on hold
  • A maximum number of callers allowed in the queue
  • A maximum time a caller can wait in the queue before being routed elsewhere
  • A "wrap-up time" to give agents a brief pause after a call before they receive the next one from the queue


Why it's important 

This feature is designed to solve common frustrations for both businesses and their customers. With this update, you can:

  • Capture more calls: By placing callers in a queue instead of sending them to voicemail, businesses can significantly reduce the number of unanswered calls and ensure more inbound inquiries reach an agent.
  • Boost sales: For sales-focused teams, call queuing ensures that no potential lead is lost due to a busy line. For support teams, it provides a structured way to handle high call volumes, especially during peak hour
  • Improve customer experience: Call queuing prevents callers from being abruptly disconnected and reduces their frustration, which is particularly helpful for businesses that experience high call volumes or have customers in regions with carrier-imposed ring time limits.

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature can be enabled or disabled per ring group. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available for Google Workspace customers with the Voice Standard and Voice Premier add-ons

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What’s changing

We're launching an integration with Lightware peripheral switchers, so that you and your team can bring your own devices (BYOD) to Google Meet on Chrome OS touch controller rooms. Now, you can plug your laptop into a Meet room with a single USB-C cable and easily use the room's display, speaker, microphone, and camera—along with your laptop—for video conferencing. The integration is available with the following peripheral switcher devices:

  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x2 HC40
  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x3 HC40

Additional details

This offers the following benefits:

  • Seamless transition: Rooms will automatically enter BYOD mode as soon as a user connects their laptop via a certified cable, enabling immediate use of the room's display and high-quality audio and video equipment.
  • Meeting continuity: If a Google Meet call is already in progress, connecting a laptop will not interrupt the call or activate BYOD mode. The same cable for BYOD mode can be used during a Google Meet meeting for sharing your screen to the meeting, ensuring a unified meeting experience.
  • Enhanced admin control: Administrators will gain new visibility within the Google admin console, allowing them to see when BYOD mode is active in a room and preventing erroneous missing peripheral alerts when a third-party device is in control.

Getting started

  • Admins: Visit the Lightware website for more information.
  • End users: Once the integration is installed, use a USB-C cable to use the room displays, audio devices, and camera.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Meet on Chrome OS devices

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What’s changing

In the coming weeks, we’ll introduce Connect room, a new way to seamlessly begin your meetings on Google Meet hardware directly from your personal device. This will be available in early preview.

Connect room streamlines how you start meetings in a conference room. Instead of manually typing a meeting code, this feature uses ultrasound proximity detection to identify a nearby, available Google Meet hardware device.

When you open the Google Meet green room on your laptop, it will automatically detect the room and present a simple option to connect to it. With a single click, the meeting starts on the room hardware, and your laptop transitions into Companion mode, getting you checked-in and ready to collaborate without missing a beat.


After clicking Connect room, your meeting is started on the room device while your laptop joins in companion mode and checks you into the room.


Google Meet updates the “Use Companion mode” to “Connect room” when it detects a nearby room to start a meeting.
This feature simplifies the meeting join experience. In particular, you can now:

  • Take over a booked, but empty conference room: If a conference room is reserved but unoccupied, open your meeting on your laptop, click “Connect room,” and you can immediately start your meeting on the Google Meet hardware.
  • Join and book an available conference room in one click: If you find an available and bookable conference room and wish to use it, simply open your meeting on your laptop, click “Connect room,” and the Google Meet hardware will instantly join the meeting, simultaneously booking the room for your use.
  • Join private meetings more easily: Simply open a meeting invite on your device, click “Connect room,” and instantly join the meeting directly on Google Meet hardware.
  • Join a meeting not listed on the conference room calendar: If you were sent a Google Meet invitation in chat or email, open your meeting on your laptop, click “Connect room,” and you can immediately start your meeting on the Google Meet hardware.

Additional details

Users on the Rapid Release track will start seeing this feature for devices enrolled in our Early Preview Rooms (EPR) program starting on December 2, 2025. We’ll share more details on the Workspace Updates blog when we begin a broader rollout.

Getting started

  • Admins: To preview this feature, your domain must be on the Rapid Release track and have devices enrolled in our EPR program. In addition, this feature relies on Google Meet hardware’s Proximity Detection device setting, which is ON by default. For this feature to work, you must enable Proximity Detection on your fleet's devices. In-room booking must also be enabled for Connect room to automatically book the room when joining the call.
  • End users: This feature will be ON by default for users on the Rapid Release track entering a room with enabled hardware. To use the feature, ensure your laptop microphone is selected in the greenroom, then simply click "Connect room" when the prompt appears. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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What’s changing

In the coming weeks, we’ll roll out a streamlined user interface for the following Meet Hardware devices: Mimo Vue HD, Mimo Mist, Logitech Tap, Logitech Tap IP, and Lenovo Series One Touch controllers (with Android devices coming soon). This new experience will offer users a more efficient and intuitive way to manage their meetings. It includes:

1.Simplified access to key controls: The controls you use most frequently inside a meeting, like mute and hand raise, are now more prominent and easily accessible. This means less time spent searching for features and more time focusing on your meeting.

2. Intuitively organized features:

  • In-meeting experience: If you need to access more advanced features, like camera controls or the meeting layout, you can now find them conveniently under the “More actions” menu. This keeps the main interface clean and uncluttered while ensuring less frequently used features are still accessible when you need them.
  • Pre-call experience: A refreshed pre-call meeting design prominently features the option to enter a meeting code or nickname, and includes a clear drop-down menu for joining Webex or Zoom meetings, streamlining your connection process.

3. A familiar interface: The touch controller UI will look and feel more similar to the Google Meet UI on the web, making your transition more intuitive.




New touch controller in-meeting experience

Getting started

  • Admins: The new experience will be ON by default. There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: This new experience will be ON by default for eligible Meet Hardware devices in your meeting rooms.

Rollout pace

Availability

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

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What’s happening

We are enhancing the translated captions feature in Google Meet by adding support for Cantonese. This update makes it easier for users to communicate and collaborate across different languages.

For your end users, this means that if a meeting attendee is speaking in Cantonese, or another supported language, Meet can now display real-time translated captions to the language of their choice. This is particularly helpful in large, global organizations or educational institutions where participants may speak different primary languages. Adding Cantonese support ensures smoother communication, better meeting accessibility, and more inclusive participation for teams working in diverse linguistic environments.

This feature allows teams to connect and collaborate more easily, ensuring all voices are heard and understood regardless of location or native language.


Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

This feature is available for the following Google Workspace editions:

  • Business Standard
  • Business Plus
  • Enterprise Standard
  • Enterprise Plus
  • Google AI Pro for Education

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What’s changing

Google Meet live stream viewers can select their own preferred language for translated captions on mobile devices. Individual language selection helps overcome language barriers during presentations and events, maximizing each viewer's potential to understand and engage with the content being shared.

Previously, Meet live streams were broadcast to mobile devices with a single target language set for captions, selected by the host when starting the live stream. Now, viewers independently select their own preferred language for translated captions and can also change this setting while watching the live stream.


Choose your preferred caption language for Meet live streams on mobile devices 

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: End users can turn translated captions on or off and select their preferred language. Visit the Help Center to learn more about translated captions.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • All Google Workspace customers can select their preferred language for captions. Only users with eligible licenses can host live streams.

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What’s changing

We recently introduced the ability for educators to create and assign NotebookLM in Google Classroom. Now, teachers can attach public notebooks to assignments, in addition to the notebooks they create or own.

This update significantly expands the access to educational content available to educators and students. Educators can now easily integrate publicly shared learning materials — including notebooks available from our partnership with OpenStax. 


Getting started

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Availability

  • Available for Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

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