GCP – Supercharging Employee Productivity with AI, Securely, with Gemini in Chrome Enterprise

AI is transforming how people work and how businesses operate. But with these powerful tools comes a critical question: how do we empower our teams with AI, while ensuring corporate data remains protected?

A key answer lies in the browser, an app most employees use every day, for most of their day. Today, we announced several new AI advancements coming to Chrome, which redefine how browsers can help people with daily tasks, and work is no exception. Powerful AI capabilities right in the browser will help business users be more productive than ever, and we’re giving IT and security teams the enterprise-grade controls they need to keep company data safe.

Gemini in Chrome, with enterprise protections

Our work days can be full of distractions— endless context switching between projects, and repetitive tasks that slow people down. That’s why we’re bringing a new level of assistance directly into the browser, where many of these workflows are already taking place.

Gemini in Chrome¹ is an AI browsing assistant that helps people at work. It can cut through the complexity of finding and making use of information across tabs and help people get work done faster. Employees can now easily summarize long and complex reports or documents, grab key insights from a video, or even brainstorm ideas for a new project with help from Gemini in Chrome. Gemini in Chrome can understand the context of a user’s tabs, and soon it will even help recall recent tabs they had open.

We’re bringing these capabilities to Google Workspace business and education customers with enterprise-grade data protections, ensuring IT teams stay in control of their company’s data.

Gemini in Chrome doesn’t just help you find information that you need for your workday, you can also take action through integrations with Google apps people use every day like Google Calendar, Docs and Drive. So employees can schedule a meeting right in their current workflows.

Gemini in Chrome is becoming available for Mac and Windows users in the U.S., and we’re also bringing Gemini in Chrome to mobile in the U.S. Users can also activate Gemini when using Chrome on Android, and other apps, by holding the power button. And starting soon, on iOS Gemini in Chrome will be built into the app.

IT teams can configure Gemini in Chrome through policies in Chrome Enterprise Core, and enterprise data protections automatically extend to customers with qualifying editions of Google Workspace.

AI Mode from Google Search in Chrome

In addition to Gemini in Chrome, the Chrome omnibox—the address bar people use to navigate the web—is also getting an upgrade. With AI Mode, people can ask complex, multi-part questions specific to their needs in the same place where they already search. You’ll get an AI-generated response, and can keep exploring with follow-up questions and helpful web links. IT teams can manage this feature through the generative AI policies in Chrome Enterprise Core.

Proactive AI Protection

We know that a browser’s greatest value is its ability to keep users safe. As the security threats from AI-generated scams and phishing attacks become more sophisticated, our defenses must evolve just as quickly. That’s why security is one of the core pillars of Chrome’s AI strategy.

Safe Browsing’s Enhanced Protection mode is now even more secure with the help of AI. We’re using it to proactively block increasingly convincing threats such as tech support scams, and will be expanding to fake anti/virus and impersonated brand websites soon. We’ve also added AI to help detect and block scammy and spammy site notifications, which has already led to billions fewer notifications being sent to Chrome on Android users every day.

AI with enterprise controls

Organizations want to empower their workforce with AI for greater productivity, but never at the expense of security. Chrome Enterprise gives IT teams the tools they need to manage these new capabilities effectively: our comprehensive policies allow IT and security teams to decide exactly which AI features in Chrome are enabled for which users, and how that data is treated.

Chrome Enterprise Premium allows organizations even more safeguards. For example, they can use URL filtering to block unapproved AI tools and point employees back to corporate supported AI services. Within AI tools, security teams can apply data masking or other upload and copy/paste restrictions for sensitive data. These advanced capabilities further prevent sensitive information from being accidentally or maliciously shared via AI tools or any other web sites.

With Chrome Enterprise, AI in the browser offers businesses the best of both worlds: a highly productive, AI-enhanced user experience and the enterprise-grade security enterprises depend on to protect their data. To learn more about these new features, view our recent Behind the Browser AI Edition video.

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