"At I/O 2026, Google announced new AI agents for gathering information, planning events, summarizing your inbox and calendar, and more. The agents can run continuously in the background, and the company claims they'll seamlessly integrate into Google's own tools and external ones. It's also expanding its developer tools and revamping Search with additional generative AI capabilities. Some are rolling out this week, and some will be available in the coming months, but the company's strategy seems clear: adopt some of the features that have helped fuel OpenClaw's success and amplify them with Google's deep knowledge of our digital presence."
"OpenClaw let people chat with their agents via everyday apps like WhatsApp and Telegram, and (as long as a laptop was open) the agents could run around the clock. They performed well enough to handle basic tasks reliably, albeit with some clear flaws. It made all the AI labs immediately sit up and take notice, but OpenAI was one of the first players to take action, acquiring OpenClaw (though it remains open-source) in February and hiring its creator Peter Steinbe"
""Before this, I think AI agents were more of an idea in research," Koray Kavukcuoglu, CTO of Google DeepMind and Google's chief AI architect, told The Verge in an interview. This year, he hopes, they'll be "really in our lives.""
Tech companies previously promised capable personal AI assistants but delivered systems that often behaved like unreliable helpers. Over the past six months, progress has accelerated with OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent platform that gained millions of users. OpenClaw enabled chat-based agent interaction through everyday apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram, and allowed agents to run around the clock when a laptop was open. Google announced new AI agents for gathering information, planning events, summarizing inbox and calendar content, and other tasks. The agents are designed to run continuously in the background and integrate with Google tools and external services. Google is also expanding developer tools and revamping Search with additional generative AI capabilities.
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