Google Just Turned Docs, Sheets, and Slides Into an AI Assistant That Knows Everything About Your Life

Google just dropped a massive update to its Workspace apps and it's either the most useful thing ever or a privacy nightmare depending on how you look at it.

Here's what changed: Gemini, Google's AI, can now pull information from your Google Drive files, your Gmail inbox, and the web to help you create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Tell it "draft a newsletter using my meeting notes from January and my upcoming events list" and it just... does it.

You can also tell it to rewrite sections of a document in your style, build entire spreadsheets from scratch based on your data, and create presentations that actually look good (finally).

The features are rolling out in beta starting today for Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. That means you need a paid plan, which is Google's not-so-subtle way of monetizing the AI features everyone expected to be free.

The big question everyone's asking: how comfortable are you with an AI that has access to your emails, your files, and your browsing history all at once? Google says your information is "safeguarded," but they also said that about Google Plus and we all know how that ended.

Still, if it actually works as advertised, this could save people hours every week on the boring document work nobody wants to do.

As reported by Google.

Source: Google