Gemini expands context and agent testing

Google is widening Gemini’s reach into people’s own Google data, while testing agents that can carry out multi-step work inside Workspace. (blog.google) On April 14, Google said Gemini’s Personal Intelligence is launching in India, after first arriving as a beta in the United States in January. Google’s support pages say the feature can connect Workspace data such as Gmail, Calendar and Drive, alongside Google Photos and some Search services. (blog.google) (support.google.com) Google says users turn Personal Intelligence on themselves and choose which apps to link. The company also says Gemini can show related sources in responses so people can check where an answer came from. (blog.google) (support.google.com) The basic idea is simple: instead of answering from the open web alone, Gemini can reason across your own emails, files, calendar entries and photos. Google describes that as helping with requests like finding purchase details, travel plans or information buried in old messages without pasting the context into a prompt. (blog.google 1) (blog.google 2) Google has been moving this capability across products, not just the Gemini app. In March, the company said Personal Intelligence was expanding in the United States across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app and Gemini in Chrome. (blog.google) At the same time, Google is pushing beyond question-and-answer tools toward software that can act more like a junior assistant. Its Workspace Studio product, announced for general availability in December 2025, lets companies build and share Gemini-powered agents that automate workflows inside Google Workspace. (workspace.google.com 1) (workspace.google.com 2) Google says those Workspace agents can use reasoning and multimodal understanding, meaning they can work with text, images and other file types, rather than follow only rigid if-then rules. The company has pitched them for jobs like sorting inboxes, summarizing updates and handling recurring business processes. (workspace.google.com 1) (workspace.google.com 2) That broader shift has already reached core Workspace apps. In March, Google said Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive could pull from selected files, emails and the web to connect information across sources for subscribers on Google Artificial Intelligence Pro and Ultra plans. (blog.google) For companies, the expansion also raises the usual control questions around internal data. Google’s admin documentation says Workspace administrators can decide whether Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise can access organizational data in services including Gmail, Drive and Google Calendar. (knowledge.workspace.google.com) The through line in Google’s April push is less about a single chatbot feature than about reducing how much context people have to supply by hand. The more Gemini can see across your accounts and tools, the closer it gets to answering — and acting — from the information you already keep inside Google. (blog.google) (workspace.google.com)