Instead of a $20 or $30 standalone plan, Google added a few dollars to its business tiers and applied the Gemini generative AI to all plans.

There is a catch, though: as it makes this change, Google is increasing the price of all Workspace plans. Jerry Dischler, Google’s president of cloud applications, tells me companies will pay roughly $2 more per month per user for the AI-enabled Workspace than they were paying before.

Google is extending Gemini features to all Workspace subscribers and increasing the price of all Business and Enterprise plans.

Google says its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini will now deliver up-to-date news from The Associated Press in the tech giant’s first such deal with a news publisher.

Google announced Wednesday that its Gemini AI is coming to enterprise subscribers and that real-time AP news is coming to Gemini chats. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

The two parties are now broadening their collaboration to give the Gemini app a boost. Google announced in a blog post that it is expanding its partnership with the news outlet to provide a “feed of real-time information” to the Gemini app.

Alongside the Nest updates, the Google Home app is also getting expanded support for smart locks connected via Matter, adding the ability to set passcodes, among other features. The lock updates are rolling out through the app’s “Public Preview” feature on Android, with iOS support coming in early 2025.

Are you a frequent user of the Google Home app? Two new features are rolling out now to upgrade your smart home in a couple of key ways.

Nest Protect smoke alarms are finally moving from the old Nest app to Google Home, starting with the Public Preview for Android users. You can now manage your Nest Protect alarms in Google Home, get alerts,

Twelve professional Los Angeles sports teams —Angel City FC, the Angels, Chargers, Clippers, Dodgers, Ducks, Galaxy, Kings, LAFC, Lakers, Rams and Sparks— will donate more than $8 million to wildfire relief organizations including the American Red Cross, California Fire Foundation and Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation.

Google and YouTube contribute $15 million to organizations providing immediate relief in the Los Angeles area. Following in the footsteps of many other major companies this week, YouTube and its parent company Google announce the donation of $15 million to organizations providing immediate relief in Los Angeles.