Google has pushed a broad Workspace update that brings more powerful video creation and editing tools to a wider set of customers while strengthening session security. The company expanded Google Vids beyond select tiers so users on Business Starter, Enterprise Starter and nonprofit plans can now create and edit videos without specialist software. Education customers also see a wider rollout, giving teachers simple tools to craft lessons that include short, polished clips.
Generative features are a major focus. Image editing inside Google Slides and Google Vids now supports prompt-driven background changes, letting teams place products or people into contextual scenes with minimal effort. More ambitious is the integration of Veo 3, Google’s video generation model, into the Gemini app for select Workspace customers. Veo 3 produces realistic short videos with audio, accurate lip-syncing and ambient sounds. A photo-to-video capability can animate a still image into an eight-second clip, a feature aimed at faster storytelling for presentations and reports. Meanwhile, Drive gains AI-powered video summaries that condense long recordings into key takeaways, saving time for people who need quick highlights rather than full footage.
Security and accessibility also got attention. Workspace now supports device bound session credentials, a mechanism that binds authentication tokens to devices to prevent token-theft attacks and remote session hijacking. That change is designed to reassure IT teams and security-conscious enterprises evaluating cloud productivity suites. NotebookLM’s studio panel adds video overviews to help synthesize complex material, and the education rollouts signal Google’s intent to make creative tools accessible to classrooms as well as corporate users.
These additions follow a rhythm of monthly feature drops that have steadily embedded generative models across Gmail, Meet and other Workspace apps. The April 2025 drop brought Gemini enhancements for note-taking and translation in communication apps, and recent posts suggest deeper integrations may be on the way, including closer ties to developer workflows. Taken together, the updates sharpen Google’s position against incumbents such as Microsoft 365, offering AI-native creativity and stronger session protection to support hybrid work and faster content production.
