Gemini Spark

Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend

Here is a summary of the article: Google's new AI agent, Gemini Spark, was tasked with planning a birthday party for the author, but it failed to recognize the author's boyfriend as the most important person in her life. Despite having access to the author's emails, documents, and calendar, the AI agent did not prioritize the boyfriend's role in the planning process. The author was disappointed with the AI agent's performance and felt that it had "friend-zoned" her boyfriend.

Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I’ve had yet

Spark is Google’s new agentic answer for everything. According to every product demo from the last four years, planning a trip is a killer use case for AI. Just tell it where you're going, they all promise, and your chatbot / agent / other buzzword will exhaustively search travel options, read up on all the fun things to do, check all the local hotspots, and offer you a fully fledged itinerary.

Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo

Google's new "24/7" AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I'm not sure it's worth the financial cost and potential privacy tradeoffs. The company gave me access to Spark last week.

As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise

This week we've got tandem hands-ons with Google's new Gemini AI agent - Spark - from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It's so effective that it's scary. Spark knew that David's dog is named Frida and knew the first name of Jay's wife, even though neither of them explicitly provided this information to Google.

Google CEO called out 'biggest AI budget problem' of companies world over from IO stage with a solution

Google CEO Sundar Pichai shifted the AI conversation from to economics at this years’s Google I/O conference. Pichai warned that the companies around the world are blowing through their annual AI budgets by May due to runaway token usage. Pichai said the rapid rise of AI agents has created unprecedented costs for enterprises.

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off

Soon, your coworkers in Microsoft Teams might not all be human. Scout, an always-on AI agent announced at Microsoft’s Build developer conference on Tuesday, can go through your work messages, calendar, and email inbox to automate tasks, reschedule meeting conflicts, and draft professional-sounding responses. Microsoft more or less built an enterprise agent on top of OpenClaw, the AI tool that riveted San Francisco’s early adopters at the start of 2026.

Commentary: Google’s AI shift is causing a collective freak-out

Commentary: Google’s AI shift is causing a collective freak-out Google’s AI evolution is taking the company into uncharted waters, though that may be less of a problem for parent company Alphabet than for advertisers, says Parmy Olson for Bloomberg Opinion. When Google recently announced radical changes to its search tool that will overshadow the page of blue links we’ve been used to seeing for more than a decade, online advertisers had something of a collective freakout. The Alphabet-owned...

Meta's highest-paid employee’s 'health message' to Anthropic, OpenAI & Google

Meta's highest-paid employee Alexandr Wang has reportedly signaled how the company plans to compete with rivals such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the AI race. In a recent interview, Alexandr Wang said that the future Meta AI models will stand out because of their health-related capabilities. Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, Wang said health will play a major role as Meta develops larger and more advanced AI models.

Apple's WWDC: Tim Cook's AI legacy at stake in his final developer conference as CEO

Apple heads into next week's Worldwide Developers Conference with its stock near record highs, iPhone momentum improving and one unresolved question hanging over Tim Cook's final developer conference as CEO: Can Apple finally deliver the artificial intelligence experience it promised two years ago? The expected centerpiece of WWDC is a major overhaul of Siri, Apple’s long-criticized voice assistant. Analysts expect Apple to show a more powerful version of Siri with a standalone chatbot-style...