Re:Anthropic IPO
by WarmWash on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:35AM
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Helping my wife this past week try and setup an automation in her workspace account revealed how dormant google is here.
Gemini is unable to take an attachment from gmail, read it, then place it in the correct drive folder and update a spreadsheet with what it found in the attachment.
For whatever reason, Google decided to firewall "Gmail Gemini" from "Drive Gemini". Gmail Gemini can send files to drive, but not edit anything, and Drive Gmail can edit files, but cannot be initiated from gmail.
Meanwhile claude code with Google extensions can do this no problem.
Gemini is unable to take an attachment from gmail, read it, then place it in the correct drive folder and update a spreadsheet with what it found in the attachment.
For whatever reason, Google decided to firewall "Gmail Gemini" from "Drive Gemini". Gmail Gemini can send files to drive, but not edit anything, and Drive Gmail can edit files, but cannot be initiated from gmail.
Meanwhile claude code with Google extensions can do this no problem.
Google, wtf are you doing?