Gemini Notebook users can now copy entire notebooks, including all associated sources and studio items, if they have copy permission for that notebook. This capability allows users to build upon existing work or templates shared by others. For example, a student can copy a notebook shared by a teacher, and then add their personal study notes and generate customized practice quizzes or flashcards to that copy, or a coworker can copy a notebook with foundational information and add on additional sources to tailor it to a specific project.

When you make a copy of a notebook, several key components are copied to the new user's library. This includes sources and studio content.

A few notes:

• Sources: Drive-based sources are only included if the user performing the copy has permission to access and copy the original Google Drive file.
• Studio content: This includes studio artifacts like Audio Overviews, Video Overviews, Study Guides, Flashcards, Quizzes, and Slide Decks, plus artifact generation prompts and custom chat configurations. 

Personal chat history and user-generated notes are not transferred to the new notebook. Additionally, a copied notebook does not sync with the original, so any subsequent updates made by the original owner do not overwrite the copied version.

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Visit the Admin Help Center to learn more about turning Gemini Notebook on or off for users.
• End users: Notebook owners can decide whether or not to allow other users to copy their notebooks in the ‘Allow copies’ section of the notebook sharing settings. Allowing others to copy notebooks is on by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating notebooks in Gemini Notebook.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Gemini Notebook on or off for users
• Google Help: Create a private copy of a notebook
• Google Help: Allow others to create a copy of your notebook

Workspace Studio enables users to boost their productivity with custom, no-code agentic automation. Today, we are adding a new set of enterprise security controls to enable additional collaboration use cases. These granular identity, data protection, observability, and governance controls provide admins with more confidence to safely enable and adopt agentic capabilities in their organization.

Built-in, enterprise security controls in Workspace Studio include:

• Agent identities
• Agent access management
• Agent auditing and observability
• Admin settings / human-in-the-loop (HiTL)
• Runtime protections

Collaboration use cases

When Studio initially launched, it was only able to assist users in their tasks, such as drafting an email, not executing tasks autonomously, such as sending an email. Now, Studio supports cross-user collaboration through the introduction of several new steps with built-in guardrails.

Collaboration actions in Studio Flows

Agent identities: Automation with flows in Studio will continue to run with the user’s identity, but in a least-privileged way. This means that the flow will have the minimal set of privileges required to run, and not the full set of privileges the owner has. When the flow executes, it will do so with a unique, auditable identifier. Note: the least-privilege agent identity will apply to newly created flows only.  Existing flows will be supported in the future.

(Beta) Identity attribution: Admins, through a new setting, will be able to decide whether the actions taken by a flow show the owner's identity, or are attributed to the flow itself, with the owner information made visible.  This will default to “on”; meaning the actions by the flow will be attributed to the flow. Note: the agent identity attribution setting will apply to newly created flows only.  Existing flows will be supported in the future.

Flow represented as the owner's identity

Flow attributed as the flow’s name with owner’s information

Auditing and observability: Actions in Studio across configuration and execution events are recorded in Studio audit events. Additionally, audit events for actions, such as edits made to a file in Drive or emails sent in Gmail, will include flow context, such as a unique flow identifier and the owner’s information. Note: agent context in audit logs will apply to newly created flows only. Existing flows will be supported in the future.

Agent access management: In the admin console, an Agent access management dashboard gives admins the ability to suspend all flows or targeted OAuth scopes for individual flows, such as revoking Drive access. Additionally, the security investigation tool enables admins to transition directly from an audit event to the agent access management page, facilitating swift remediation during incident investigations. Note: after the rollout, newly created flows will be shown in Agent access management.  Existing flows will be supported in the future.

Agent access management dashboard

Admin settings & human-in-the-loop: Additional admin settings will support disabling specific step types for flows, disabling Gemini data access, enforcing end-user confirmation for steps that share data externally, and disabling webhook integrations.

Flow asking for human approval before it sends an email externally

Runtime protections: Additional data loss prevention (DLP) features for Gemini data access and Studio flows are available for added protection. Gemini DLP restricts Gemini’s ability to access Drive data based on content conditions and labels, with support for additional services coming soon. Agent DLP will support restrictions on Studio flow execution, including blocking or enforcing end-user review, based on conditions of the sourced data, utilized data, and data visibility of the output.

Studio DLP

Rollout pace

Admin console settings

• Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Rollout starting today (up to 3 days for visibility)

End-user visible features

• Rapid Release domains: Rollout starting August 20, 2026 (up to 3 days for feature visibility).
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual roll out (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting September 1, 2026 

(Beta) Identity attribution

• Rapid Release domains: Rollout starting today, over a gradual period of 7 days
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting August 24, 2026

Getting started

• Admins:
• Workspace Studio set up guide for admins
• See a list of all flows and manage data access
• Manage flow attribution visibility
• Require user approval for sensitive steps
• Set up DLP for Agents
• Set up DLP for Gemini Data Access
• End users: Once available, end users can access the steps by visiting https://studio.workspace.google.com/

Availability

Available for Google Workspace*:

• Business Starter,  Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

Also available to*:

• Google AI Pro for Education
• Google AI Ultra for Business

* Gemini DLP, and DLP for Studio are available only for Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus

Administrators using Drive Inventory Reporting in Google BigQuery can now access granular external sharing fields designed to simplify complex permission structures. By automatically consolidating direct permissions, group memberships, and public links into clear signals, this update helps organizations easily identify external exposure across their Drive environments.

Administrators can now distinguish between human users, service accounts, and files published to the web, as well as cross-reference sharing attributes with existing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) metadata to prioritize remediation for high-risk data.

Getting started

• Admins: This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled via the "External sharing calculations" setting under Drive inventory report settings in the Google Admin console. Note that for organizations with large Google groups, enabling this calculation may extend processing time and impact report delivery schedules.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 14, 2026

Availability

• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard, and Plus
• Education: Education Standard, and Plus
• Other Editions: Frontline Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Export your organization’s Drive inventory
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Schema and example queries for Drive inventory exports in BigQuery

Improved file importing in Google Sheets with tables and linked pivot tables

We’re introducing two key improvements in Google Sheets that preserve formatting and linked data when converting files from Microsoft Excel. First, Excel tables will now seamlessly import as Sheets tables. Second, Sheets now fully supports importing Excel pivot tables that are backed by table ranges. | Learn more.

New usability features in Connected Sheets

Google Workspace is introducing two usability enhancements to Connected Sheets to improve data presentation and give more flexibility when analyzing BigQuery data. | Learn more.

Use Sheets canvas to visualize data in custom, interactive mini-apps

We’re excited to launch Sheets canvas, a new Gemini-powered capability that transforms your spreadsheets into custom, interactive, read-write applications using simple natural language prompts. It acts as a dynamic visualization layered directly on top of your spreadsheet data, allowing you and your team to work in layouts that best fit your workflows. | Learn more.

Take Notes for me for in-person meetings is now available

We know that balancing active participation with note taking during face-to-face discussions can be a challenge. You shouldn't have to choose between staying present in the moment and capturing critical context for later. We’re excited to start rolling out a new way to make Google Meet the home for all of your meetings, expanding beyond just video calls to support your in-person collaboration.  | Learn more.

New admin controls for adding invitations to Google Calendar

Google Calendar users have three options for how event invitations are added to their calendar: auto-add invitations from everyone, auto-add invitations from known senders only, or add invitations only after the user responds in email. To date, administrators can only choose the default value for users in their organization. | Learn more.

The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Google Calendar users have three options for how event invitations are added to their calendar: auto-add invitations from everyone, auto-add invitations from known senders only, or add invitations only after the user responds in email. To date, administrators can only choose the default value for users in their organization.

With this release, we’re expanding Calendar settings in the Admin console to offer organizations more granular controls on invitations.  Administrators can now determine the invitation options available to end users, providing organizations more control over inbound event invitations from unknown senders and minimizing potential security risks from the content contained within them.

Getting started

• Admins: This control is set to “From everyone” by default and can be adjusted at the organizational unit (OU) or group level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about automatically adding events to calendars.
• End users: Users can select the value in their Calendar settings within the boundaries set by their administrator. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing invitations in Calendar.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 14, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Automatically add events to calendars
• Google Calendar Help: Manage invitations in Calendar