Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

Google is turning Gemini into an agent that plans and executes tasks across business apps and systems. It can delegate to subagents, use multiple AI models, and gets its own workplace identity including an email address.

Why it matters: Giving agents their own identities treats them as accountable workplace actors, which raises access-control and audit questions for IT teams. It also puts Google in direct competition with Microsoft's agent-focused Windows push and OpenAI's and Anthropic's enterprise agents.