Google's Gemini Agent Does Your Job: Answers Emails, Writes Code, Gets Its Own Work Email
Google doesn’t want its AI to just answer your questions anymore. It wants it to do your job. The company unveiled Gemini agent on Thursday at its Gemini at Work 2026 event: a universal AI assistant built to handle real knowledge work, from answering questions and handling tasks to creating images and media, writing code, and running it. You hand it an objective, not a step-by-step brief. It plans the work, picks the right tools, connects to your company’s systems, and delivers the finished product. It keeps working in the cloud after you close your laptop. Google says longer tasks can run for hours or days without another briefing. ...