Google adds new Gemini features to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive

Google has announced several new Gemini-powered features across its Workspace apps, integrating its generative AI model in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. Intended to make starting projects easier, these new AI features enable Gemini to generate drafts with information pulled from your emails, chats, and files. "So, for example, for Google Docs, very often, the first step of starting any new writing project is all the manual prep," Google VP of Workspace Yulie Kwon Kim said in an interview with Mashable. "You spend a lot of time gathering your notes, digging through your emails, bringing together, hunting down all of the different files or sources, and all of that just to get to the first draft on the page. And so now, what we're doing is Gemini handles that for you." Fortunately, Gemini won't dive into your personal correspondence uninvited. Users will first have to direct it to grab that information from your Gmail, Drive, or Chat via a prompt entered into a new text bar in each Workspace app. One prompt example provided by Google: "draft a newsletter for our neighbourhood association using the meeting minutes from my January HOA meeting and the list of upcoming events." In addi