Google Gemini Enterprise updates

Google is adding a new layer of AI controls to Gemini Enterprise, including an agent inbox, Canvas editing for Docs and Slides, and reusable automation skills. (workspace.google.com) The company announced the updates at Google Cloud Next on April 22, 2026, alongside Workspace Intelligence, a system Google says gives Gemini real-time context from apps like Docs, Slides, Gmail, Chat, Drive, active projects, and company knowledge. (workspace.google.com) Google says Ask Gemini in Chat will act as a “unified command line” for work and can surface a daily briefing with unread threads, urgent action items, and tasks generated through skills inside Workspace. (workspace.google.com) The new skills feature is aimed at repetitive office processes. Google said teams can build a skill in Workspace Studio, share it “as easily as collaborating on a Doc,” and call it from anywhere Gemini appears in Workspace. (workspace.google.com) Google’s example is invoice review: a skill can compare a new invoice with recent invoices in a user’s inbox and flag discrepancies, turning a written procedure into a reusable workflow. (workspace.google.com) Canvas is the editing surface behind part of this push. Google’s help documentation says Canvas in Gemini Enterprise can generate a document from a prompt, open it in an editor on the right side of the screen, and let users revise the text directly or ask Gemini to keep editing. (support.google.com) In Docs, Google rolled out a redesigned Gemini experience on April 22 that can draft formatted documents using information from Drive, Gmail, Chat, and the web, then apply edits from a bottom bar or side panel. Suggested edits remain private until the user approves them. (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com) That Docs update also adds “Match writing style” and “Match doc format,” which let Gemini imitate the tone, structure, fonts, colors, headings, and table layouts of an existing document. Google said the features launch in English first, with Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean coming later. (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com) Slides is getting a similar treatment. Google said earlier this month that Gemini can now generate full editable decks, pull in files from Drive for content or style, and modify existing slides’ layouts, design elements, or text. (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com) The broader change is that Google is moving Gemini Enterprise away from a chat window and toward a work system that can route tasks, draft content, and reuse automation across teams. The same product line already includes no-code and low-code agent building through Agent Designer, with connections to sources such as Gmail, Drive, and Jira. (support.google.com) Google has been building toward that model for months. In January, it announced general availability for Google Workspace Studio, which it described as the place to design, manage, and share AI agents inside Workspace without coding. (workspace.google.com) The new inbox, Canvas tools, and skills system all point to the same bet: workers will spend less time switching between apps and more time approving, editing, or rerunning AI-generated work inside Google’s own software. (workspace.google.com)