[Product Update] New Workspace Intelligence admin controls for Google Workspace starting Apr 22, 2026 Google Workspace Dear administrator, You're receiving this communication because we're introducing Workspace Intelligence. Workspace Intelligence is an underlying Al system that provides Gemini with a real-time understanding of your work across Google Workspace. With Workspace Intelligence, all of your generative Al tasks within Workspace will be grounded in your Workspace data across Gmail, Chat, Calendar, and Drive, eliminating the need for users to manually provide context to Gemini on every query. For example, imagine you want to draft an update to your manager on "Project X" in Google Docs. You simply ask Gemini in Docs. Workspace Intelligence will consult all relevant data, your meeting notes, documentation, and chat discussions about Project X, and draft the report in seconds, with full citations. As an administrator, you have control over which data sources Workspace Intelligence can use for your organization. We understand this change may require some adjustments and have provided additional information below to guide you through these new controls.

What this means for your organization Workspace Intelligence securely draws from content in Gmail, Drive, Chat, and Calendar, as well as connected third party sources, to deliver personalized outputs via Gemini 3 reasoning. Starting April 22, 2026: • New Admin Controls: You will have access to new controls in the Admin console to manage which data sources are used to ground Workspace Intelligence. Note: it may take up to 3 days after rollout begins for these controls to appear. • Default Setting: The Workspace Intelligence settings will be default ON for all users in your organization. What's not changing: These changes do not alter our underlying data handling practices or privacy. commitments. Al features respect user-level content access, ensuring that responses are grounded only in content that a user already has permission to view. Your data is never used to train generative Al models or for advertising purposes.

Additional Details: • Workspace Intelligence powers Al capabilities, such as Al Overviews in Gmail and Drive, and Help me create in Docs, by securely accessing content across Gmail, Drive, and Calendar. • New Admin console settings will allow admins to decide at the organizational unit and group level which data sources (Gmail, Chat, Calendar, or Drive) may be actively searched by Gemini features in Workspace. • If enabled, the Al features respect user-level content access, ensuring that responses are grounded only in content owned by or shared with that user. • If you turn off Workspace Intelligence for a specific data source, generative Al features will not actively search for content from the disabled source. However, if a user adds a specific source to their prompt, that source will be used in Gemini's response. • For example, if you turn Drive off as a source, users can still ask Gemini about specific files. Gemini will consult these files, but it won't actively search for other files. Additionally, if you turn off certain data sources, users may lose access to specific Al features. What you need to do No action is required unless you'd like to change the default settings. To modify the Workspace Intelligence Admin settings, follow the steps in this Help Center article. We're here to help If you have questions, please review the Help Center article linked to above. Thanks for choosing Google Workspace. - The Google Workspace Team

Google has turned AI ingestion of Workspace data on by default starting today.

(also) 📚 currently reading: Heroines by Kate Zambreno #booksky

i also follow that same route for spellcheck

I feel like some of you nerds haven't encountered the *incredibly common* pattern where a person opens their browser, which loads a google search box by default, and there they type "gmail.com", then proceed to click on the first result. this is how millions of people use the Internet.

The Clash - Clampdown [Lyrics] YouTube video by accounthaver

Clampdown kinda morning

youtu.be/xu1EkzulHCM?...

“A society based on symbols is, in its essence, an artificial society in which the physical truth of humankind becomes a hoax.” -Camus

keep thinking abt how homer simpson is thomas pynchon’s role model

meaning: i play zelda

take it back! take it baaaaaack!!!

my life’s work! 🙏

agree. having been woken by the incessant 5am meowing of a completely endearing cat who is now fast asleep

Got our solar panels installed this AM. They came at 8:30am and we're gone by 1:30pm. 13 panels and 10kwh battery.

We can't export to the grid yet (the network operator has been flooded with new requests) but we charged our car with the sun this afternoon. Great feeling, strongly recommend.

unfortunately they don’t know how to read 😕

tell Madonna

Found this book about trees at a used #book shop — and found a previous owner’s dried-leaf collection inside. Super cool. #booksky

that’s how we found our cat who just passed away…15 years later!

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

PHOTO by Quang Vuong. A narrow aisle stretches deep into a monochrome labyrinth of tall bookshelves, packed tightly with aged spines and endless stories. Overhead signs mark categories—Poetry, U.S. History, Literary Bios—dangling above the quiet corridor. A lone step ladder waits mid-path, inviting the seeker upward. Fluorescent lights cast a sterile glow, yet the space feels timeless, suspended between thought and memory. The silence is thick, broken only by the imagined rustle of turning pages.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

cover of book depicting a busy city street in b&w title “Shadow Ticket” in orange all-caps font

📚currently reading: Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon #booksky

ohhhhh McMurtry is on my list of authors to read

and kudos bars!

Tree BY JANE Hirshfield It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books— Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth
#SmallPoemSunday
#Tree by #JaneHirshfield
#NaPoMo #poetry 🌲🏡

“Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.”

☠️

HER CARDBOARD LOVER The way you look tonight is perishable, unphotographable, laughable. Sometimes dyslexia strikes in late middle age. You are the way I look tonight. At last my love has come along. And you are mine at last. Slowly the orchestra wives pick over the set, go behind a wall. The big smiley man is thinking, thinking he has an IDEA! Well, if he says so. You gotta believe him. One orchestra wife comes back. She has forgotten her pearls. The orchestra riffs around, they come back. “Well, I never! Of all things!” Oh, it plays to the breach. You see it. Her lover and best friend came along the hall. “I’m sorry, Dan. But I just couldn’t.” So it’s all alright, he thinks. He thinks it’s a secret.

The big smiley man is thinking,

John Ashbery

a woman in a purple shirt is holding a water bottle in a kitchen . ALT: a woman in a purple shirt is holding a water bottle in a kitchen .

yes please

i lived in missoula for grad school at a time when this was required reading & i’ll be honest: i was dubious - but i recall being surprised by how good it was. i should reread.
it recently got a plug in taylor sheridan’s new show

Everything Is Free YouTube video by Gillian Welch - Topic

Everything is Free kinda morning
youtu.be/Sy6VMDXB2SQ?...

you know that thing where people try to convince you that you should do something you don’t want to do and you get the distinct sense that they are really trying to convince themselves it’s a great idea (getting married, having kids, getting a straight job, etc.)?
i would add using AI to that list.