Besides Workspace Intelligence, Google announced a suite of new Workspace features across Drive, Sheets, Meet, and more at Cloud Next 2026. These updates are rolling out over the coming weeks.
Google Meet has offered a Gemini-powered “Take Notes for me” feature for some time now. In fact, “over 110 million attendees have used Take Notes For Me in the last month” for 8.5x year-over-year growth.
It’s now expanding beyond the virtual realm to in-person meetings. From the Google Meet mobile app or website, tapping Take Notes for me will start a recording session that generates transcripts, meeting summaries, and action items in Google Docs. Additionally, you can now use the automated feature for Teams or Zoom meetings.
Google Drive is adding a “Projects” feature to “centrally organize your files and emails” for other people and Gemini. Projects let you add a specific set of source files that allow you to easily have multiple conversations. It appears in the side panel on the web under “Home.”
Canvas in Google Sheets lets you create dashboards, heat maps, kanban boards, and other interactive visualizations that can be shared. Similar to the Gemini app, canvas makes possible a “fully interactive mini-app right on top of your data.”
