Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to "skills", starting Nov. 17; Google introduced skills with Gemini Spark (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google is changing how users customize Gemini, migrating “Gems” to a new “skills” model starting Nov. 17. For CIOs and technology leaders, this is a small but important product-architecture shift that can affect how employees build AI assistants, how those customizations are governed, and how organizations standardize AI usage across teams.