Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration, at IO 2026
At the Google I/O developer conference, the company announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.
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