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Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) is Google's cloud-based suite of productivity apps—including Gmail, Docs, and Drive—for businesses and individuals.
Google paused the Workspace rollout of Gemini skills on October 13 while the Gemini app rollout continues, a DEV Community guide reports. Business accounts lose Gems from March 1, 2027 at the earliest, and the pause has no end date.
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Microsoft says kits backed by YAM Store's illicit Microsoft and Google environments supported over one billion phishing emails and SMS messages since January. Storm-3119 obtains tenants by compromise or by creating fraudulent organizations.
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Google announced Sheets canvas on Aug. 13, 2026, a Gemini feature that builds read-write mini-apps over existing spreadsheet data from a typed prompt. TechRepublic's report does not say which Workspace plans qualify.
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JumpCloud surveyed 250 IT leaders and found 59% of organisations using AI agents have not fully integrated them into identity and access management. For incident responders the harder number is the 36% that investigated an AI-related concern and could not establish what the AI had accessed.
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Google Cloud's Gemini agent works inside Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and the command line, keeping one set of memories across all of them. For whoever rolls it out, the work becomes wiring in the systems of record and access controls it depends on.
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Just 474 of the 1,000 most popular websites set DMARC to reject spoofed mail, a dev.to survey of their DNS found. Thirty-two months after Google and Yahoo began requiring DMARC from bulk senders, 84.5% of the sites publish a record, but only 69.4% apply an enforcing policy to all their mail.
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Google Cloud's Gemini agent, launched on October 8, gives each AI coworker its own company email address, calendar and directory entry. For now, customers are left to set the policies for licensing those accounts and answering for their work.
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Google Docs now edits .md and .markdown files natively, keeping them as Markdown, in a rollout that began Oct. 5 and can take up to 15 days. Documentation teams can now review the file that actually ships, though reviewers lose some of the visual markup Docs normally keeps.
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Nikkei said attackers used hijacked staff Microsoft 365 accounts to send about 9,000 malicious-link emails on September 30, many to outside sources. The company believes recipients' names and addresses were exposed and expects more mail impersonating its staff.
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Anthropic's Claude beta for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, announced October 6, lets each user swap "Ask before edits" for "Accept all edits". That puts the review step on shared company files in the hands of whoever opens the sidebar.
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Anthropic put Claude in public beta inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides on Oct. 6 for paid Claude plans. Teams weighing it against Gemini now choose by what each assistant can reach in a file and by what the beta still cannot do.
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Promevo launched Insights to join Gemini Enterprise license and agent data that, it says, Google's consoles split apart and keep for only 28 days. It is aimed at admins who have to name idle seats and audit the agents staff build themselves.
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OpenAI opened ChatGPT Space and Pages to Pro, Business and Enterprise users at DevDay, with shared slides due within weeks. Slides export to PowerPoint and Google, so teams can work with ChatGPT's agents there and keep finished files where they already live.
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Google will automatically convert Gemini Gems into skills from November 17 for personal accounts, with Workspace businesses following in March 2027. Anyone who shares Gems with colleagues needs a re-sharing plan timed to their own account's date.
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Google is opening Gemini Skills to Workspace as an admin-enabled beta and will retire Gems for business customers from March 2027. Teams that pilot now can test Skills on their own templates while Google's rollout wording and distribution tools are still settling.
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Google will retire Gemini's Gems on November 17, 2026, and auto-migrate each one to a cross-task "skill." Anyone who built a custom assistant keeps the work but loses the sidebar and picks it with a slash instead.
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The 16MB download matters less than what it plugs into: Instagram and Facebook accounts, ad campaigns and Google Workspace, with Meta's training and ad-targeting policy attached.
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Google says Spark keeps a goal and runs scheduled work for days or weeks with the app shut. The supplied materials never say what it can do, what it cannot, or who can reach it.
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A dev.to post on healthtech workspace joining argues that DNS TXT challenges and mailbox confirmations prove different things, and the Go example it ships bounds DNS freshness at 24 hours while leaving the mailbox proof undated.
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Google says rollout of Interactive Learning Overviews began on September 15 and that administrators may need to enable Gemini Notebook, so the review of generated quizzes and flashcards lands on whoever owns the source documents.
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