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Googlefeature

Link·Aug 20, 2026

Google Antigravity for Enterprise

Google's agentic coding tool comes to Gemini Enterprise subscriptions with admin controls and wider editor support.

Best for: Rolling an AI coding agent out to a whole engineering org with spend caps and audit logs attached.
When to use it: IT blocked an agentic coding tool because there was no way to govern spend or review what it did.
Who benefits: Platform and IT admins at companies already on Gemini Enterprise.

Googlefeature

Link·Aug 19, 2026

Gemini Student Hub

A dedicated section of the Gemini app built around studying rather than open-ended chat.

Best for: Turning source material into something you can test yourself against.
When to use it: You are working through dense material and want it structured, not summarized.
Who benefits: Students, and anyone teaching themselves from documents who wants the same tools.

Googlepricing

Link·Aug 19, 2026

Google AI Pro Free Year for College Students

Eligible college students get 12 months of a paid Gemini plan at no cost.

Best for: Getting a full-featured Gemini plan into a student's hands without a budget conversation.
When to use it: You are a college student, or run programs for them, and the paid tier is the blocker.
Who benefits: Verified college students in the US and 140+ other countries.

Last Week

Googlefeature

Link·Aug 14, 2026

Visible Watermark Toggle in Gemini

A setting in the Gemini app that turns off the visible watermark stamped onto images, videos, and music you generate.

Best for: putting Gemini-made visuals into branded work where a corner stamp would clash
When to use it: a generated image or video is going into a deck, ad, or social post and the mark sits over the layout
Who benefits: marketers and designers producing campaign visuals in the Gemini app

Googlefeature

Link·Aug 13, 2026

Sheets canvas

A prompt-built interactive layer over a Google Sheet that turns the rows into a working mini-app, for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

Best for: turning a tracker or planning sheet your team already maintains into something they can click through instead of scroll
When to use it: the data is fine but nobody reads it, and a dashboard or form would get more use than the raw grid
Who benefits: marketing and ops people who run campaign trackers, budgets, and content calendars in Sheets and have no one to build them a tool

Googlemodel

Link·Aug 13, 2026

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Google's new workhorse Gemini model for coding and agent work, priced at half of 3.6 Flash through the end of 2026.

Best for: multi-step agent and coding work you were sending to a pricier model for reliability
When to use it: a task needs planning and tool calls across several steps, not one answer
Who benefits: developers on the Gemini API, and Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app

Googlefeature

Link·Aug 12, 2026

Copy a Notebook in Gemini Notebook

You can duplicate a notebook in Gemini Notebook, carrying every source and artifact into your own copy.

Best for: Turning a notebook someone shared with you into your own working version without rebuilding the source list by hand.
When to use it: You want to build on a shared notebook but need your changes kept separate from the original.
Who benefits: Teams running a shared research or briefing notebook that each person then adapts for their own work.

Googlefeature

Link·Aug 12, 2026

New Connected Apps in Gemini

Gemini can now link to 13 more outside services, including Otter.ai, Granola, Wix, and Ticketmaster, so it can act inside those tools from a chat.

Best for: Handing Gemini a task that lives in a tool you already pay for, like pulling a summary out of Otter.ai or editing a page on a Wix site.
When to use it: The work sits in a third-party service and you would otherwise switch tabs and do it by hand.
Who benefits: Marketers running a stack of small SaaS tools, especially anyone taking a lot of meeting notes or maintaining a site.

August 2026

Googlefeature

Link·Aug 4, 2026

Gemini Notebook Upgraded Experience (All Pro Users)

The agentic research version of Gemini Notebook, previously limited to Ultra subscribers, is now switched on for every Google AI Pro user.

Best for: Research where you start from a question instead of a folder of sources you already collected.
When to use it: You pay for Google AI Pro and want Notebook to go find the material and hand back a chart or spreadsheet, not just summarize what you uploaded.
Who benefits: Google AI Pro subscribers doing research-heavy work: analysts, students, and marketers building briefs out of scattered material.

July 2026

Googlefeature

Link·Jul 31, 2026

Gemini Spark (International Rollout)

Spark, the background agent that runs tasks for you after you close your laptop, is now open to Google AI Pro subscribers in most countries instead of the US only.

Best for: Handing off multi-step tasks you do not want to sit and watch, like monitoring a page or assembling research over hours
When to use it: You are on Google AI Pro outside the US and Spark was previously greyed out for you
Who benefits: Non-US marketers and operators on the Pro tier who have been reading about Spark for weeks without being able to open it

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