The Verge
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If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can
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Google has announced new AI agent capabilities at I/O 2026, positioning itself as a major player in making AI assistants practically useful after years of overpromising, with competition emerging from open-source platforms like OpenClaw.
If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can
For years, tech companies have promised AI will give everyone a capable personal assistant but delivered something more like a clueless intern. Over the past six months, that has started to change, thanks largely to the viral open-source AI agent platform OpenClaw. And among the top AI labs now chasing similar success, one seems particularly well-poised to make agents succeed at a large scale: Google.
At I/O 2026, Google announced new AI agents for gathering information, planning events, summari
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