{"id":323135,"date":"2026-04-23T05:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=323135"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:49:37","slug":"google-chat-becomes-an-agent-interface-for-workspace-computerworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/google-chat-becomes-an-agent-interface-for-workspace-computerworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chat becomes an agent interface for Workspace \u2013 Computerworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Irwin Lazar, principal analyst at Metrigy, said the addition of Ask Gemini in Chat highlights Google\u2019s efforts to compete more directly with Microsoft Teams. \u201cToday, chat is the first interface for worker engagement as email has fallen by the wayside,\u201d he said. \u201cIdeally, I\u2019d wish to see the AI interface be equally accessible across all apps, so one could access it in Gmail, Docs, etc.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"jwPlayer--floatingContainer\" role=\"complementary\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Other AI-related updates to Workspace apps announced at <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/topics\/google-cloud-next\/welcome-to-google-cloud-next26\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/topics\/google-cloud-next\/welcome-to-google-cloud-next26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Cloud Next<\/a> include the flexibility to construct and edit spreadsheets in Sheets via natural language prompts; Gemini can orchestrate \u201cmulti-step construction\u201d and mix data from various sources reminiscent of a user\u2019s files, emails, and chats, in addition to the net. Gemini in Docs is getting an upgrade, too, with the flexibility to create infographics grounded in business data.<\/p>\n<p>Underpinning a number of the Gemini features is a brand new work graph, Workspace Intelligence, that connects data held across emails, chats, files and the net to enhance the accuracy and relevance of outputs from Gemini agents. Workspace Intelligence \u201cunderstands complex semantic relationships\u201d between a user\u2019s data and apps, helping to personalize these outputs by learning past work and communication patterns,\u201d Google said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irwin Lazar, principal analyst at Metrigy, said the addition of Ask Gemini in Chat highlights Google\u2019s efforts to compete more directly with Microsoft Teams. \u201cToday, chat is the first interface for worker engagement as email has fallen by the wayside,\u201d he said. \u201cIdeally, I\u2019d wish to see the AI interface be equally accessible across all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3057,7911,17165,15,11795,7443],"class_list":["post-323135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-agent","tag-chat","tag-computerworld","tag-google","tag-interface","tag-workspace"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323138,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323135\/revisions\/323138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}