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With new Gemini features, Google wants to transform Drive “from a passive storage container into an active knowledge base.” These updates are also coming to Google Slides and Sheets, starting today for AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, as well as Gemini Alpha business customers for US-English. 

Gemini in Google Docs is getting a slew of new features that upgrade and better integrate the experience. The end result is a more Canvas-like experience that lets you co-edit with Gmail. 

On the back of expansive recent updates, NotebookLM appears to be testing the option to add banner images for further customization.

According to the latest release notes for Google Play services, Android phones will be getting a “new local file backup feature” powered by Google Drive.

After introducing text-to-speech in August, Google Docs is now rolling out audio summaries. 

Google open-sourced Google Sans and Google Sans Flex in December, and the fonts are now available for you to add in Google Docs. 

With the web now dominated by short-form videos, captions have stopped just being an accessibility tool, becoming essential to allow for users to quickly watch content on mute. Today, Google Vids is delivering a big upgrade to its built-in automated captions tool.

Last year, Google Drive’s Material 3 Expressive redesign rolled out in a piecemeal fashion and saw one aspect revert. The full revamp with the container component is now available. 

Instead of relying on algorithms to recommend news stories, Google Search lets you set “preferred sources” so the stories you see come from the news outlets you actually like.

Android 16 QPR3 launched today for Google Pixel devices, bringing some interesting tweaks to round out the later stages of this software build. The newest update brings a smooth new folder animation to the forefront, along with a couple of customization changes for the home screen.

Following the editor updates in August, the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides homepages are now getting a Material 3 Expressive redesign.

It’s not often you see major companies reverting unpopular changes to their apps, but that’s exactly what Google’s doing to its cropping tools within Photos’ built-in editor.

High-quality wallpapers sourced from MKBHD were, for a time, available through a proprietary app called “Panels.” The Panels app is now being removed from the Google Play Store and App Store, as Marques Brownlee cites sustainability issues.

Out of nowhere, Google brought cross-platform AirDrop support to the Pixel 10 this week, allowing the company’s latest lineup of flagships to safely and securely send photos, files, and more to the iPhone. While it initially seemed like this was a rogue move made by Google to coerce Apple into another boundary-breaking decision, it might actually be part of the repercussions that also led to USB-C on iPhone and the adoption of RCS.

Given the nature of cloud storage for Google Workspace accounts, data migration is a massive undertaking when there are no official tools to get the job done. The new migration feature is designed to give Dropbox users an easy way to transfer users and files to Google Drive in one fell swoop.

After NotebookLM, Gemini, and Search, Audio Overviews are coming to Google Drive for conversational, podcast-style summaries of your PDFs.

If you’re seeing a new icon in the top-right corner of Google Drive this morning, it’s for Google Workspace Flows.

Set Calling Cards on Android are wonderful for personalized contacts, but what may be better is setting your own Calling Card that shows up on other devices when you call others. That might be in the works, according to one insight report.

The Oura app was already one of the easiest health tracking apps to use, and the company says that its getting an overhaul to make it even better with new features.

As filters in video call platforms go, Google Meet is taking a more subtle and convenient approach with AI-powered makeup options.

Right on time for Amazon’s Prime Day, the company has released an app update that removes every hurdle from buying more with a new “add to delivery” button.

Snapchat has made plenty of attempts to monetize its app over the past few years, and with its latest effort, it’s placing a cap on the amount of photos and videos users can save in the cloud for free. Unlimited Memories backups are going away nearly a decade after their introduction, and it’s going to cost Snapchat power users.

Google Drive for desktop on macOS and Windows is adding AI-powered ransomware detection that can stop syncing and allows for easy file restore.