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Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant you can email like a colleague

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Google announced Gemini Spark at I/O 2026, an always-on agentic AI assistant built on Gemini 3.5 and the Antigravity harness. It runs on dedicated cloud VMs, integrates natively with Gmail and Workspace, and will be available to AI Ultra subscribers next week.[/tldr]

Google has unveiled Gemini Spark, an always-on personal AI agent that can receive tasks via a dedicated Gmail address, browse the web through Chrome, and work around the clock without requiring users to keep a laptop open. The company announced the product at its I/O 2026 developer conference on Monday, positioning it as its most ambitious move yet in the intensifying race to build autonomous digital assistants.

Spark is built on Gemini 3.5 and powered by the Antigravity agent harness, Google’s newly expanded platform for building agentic software. It runs on dedicated virtual machines on Google Cloud, which means it can execute long-running tasks in the background...

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